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Technology Stocks : BAY Ntwks (under House) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RFF who wrote (4373)	3/3/1998 4:14:00 AM
From: StockMan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6980

RFF, Re -- BAY's products have different interfaces - mentions the Accelar line, 350T....some others. Says that when an IT department deploys BAY end-to-end, engineers need to learn several different interface apps. The optivity management suite when available on Bay's products, provide a common i/f. However (Bay folk can correct me on this) there are a few management tasks not covered by optivity. Currently I think Accelar has its own i/f different from others. The tradeoff which an IT manager would have to make, in addition to other factors, would be the cost of not having increased bandwidth vs the cost of maintaining the product (including training). Fortunately Cisco does not have an equivalent product, and wont have one for a few months. Also if UI is intuitive (and by some accounts it is) training wont be such a factor. Also with the move toward a web based i/f (each of these devices having an embedded web server), the problem to a large part will become moot. But in the meantime education is important, and Bay with its routing switch seminars is doing just that. Stockman