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To: Sawtooth who wrote (12518)	2/18/1998 11:55:00 AM
From: Eric	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

Tim The internet is migrating to a faster routing or switching (depending how you look at it) methods. The problem with software is the lookup time and then implementing the solution electronically. Of course the variables are incredible in attacking the solution to faster switching. The advantage of software is that you can modify remotely the system architecture to route (or switch!) signals (packets). Higher speeds are usually achieved by avoiding the software lookup. I could babble on to infinity on this subject, there are so many ways to implement faster routing or switching! I get a kick out of the "layer 3" discussion. From my engineering perspective the majority of people talking about this don't know what they are talking about. Tim I am not worried about the perceived threat of layer 3 switches to Cisco. They have many other ways of migrating to faster technologies. regards Eric