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To: Jay Durell who wrote (3780)	3/19/1998 9:01:00 AM
From: PeterR1700	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18016

Jay - sorry, but not informed enough to comment on NN news alert. Try Pat Mudge - she is. Peter

To: Jay Durell who wrote (3780)	3/19/1998 11:16:00 AM
From: pat mudge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18016

Here's the article. I actually don't know the significance. Perhaps on par with an industry award. It says they're the best in that group tested at that time. The second story is on Nortel but certainly applies to all networkers providing bandwidth for the Information Age. Pat >>> Newbridge Switched Routing System Rated Top In Layer 3 Test Newsbytes - March 18, 1998 16:34 HERNDON, VIRGINIA, U.S.A., 1998 MAR 18 (NB) -- Networking Roundup. Information technology consultant Renaissance Worldwide Inc. says Newbridge Networks' [NYSE:NN] switched routing system was judged the "most cost effective" Layer 3 switching system. According to Newbridge, Renaissance Worldwide polled networking vendors' reference accounts in three industries: education, health care, and manufacturing. Each network had reportedly been upgraded from a legacy, router-based infrastructure. The company says that most of the systems evaluated "were non- standards-compliant hybrids of Layer 2 switching in hardware and Layer 3 routing in software." The Newbridge system centralizes administration and control of the network in an Multiprotocol-over-ATM server. Network administrators configure a single device once to implement changes to existing router policies. Reported By Newsbytes News Network: newsbytes.com>>> >>>> By Neal Boudette HANOVER, Germany, March 18 (Reuters) - Northern Telecom Ltd said on Wednesday that demand for faster connections to the Internet would roughly triple its sales of access products from less than $300 million to more than $1 billion in the next few years. "I think you're going to see an enormous surge in this area," Ian Craig, president of NorTel's broadband networks division, told Reuters in an interview at the CeBIT trade fair. "I think our sales will be over $1 billion in a few of years." Access products include modems, ISDN (integrated services digital networks) cards and other devices that enable computers to send and receive data via the Internet or telephone networks. Most of the surge would come from products under development that have the potential to deliver much faster access than the modems available for personal computers today, Craig said after at a news conference. "There are about 75 million people on the Internet today and we think it will go to 250 million by 2000," said Craig. "There's going to be huge demand for faster access." Nortel's most promising access products include a modem that can send data at a rate of one megabit per second and a device that can use electric power lines to send data at similar speeds, Craig said. The one-megabit modem can send data over standard copper wires up to 10 or more times faster than modems based on ISDN, which was seen as highly promising in the 1980s, Craig said. An Internet access provider in Chicago recently began offering Nortel's one megabit modem to its subscribers and another in New York is planning to do the same later this year, Craig said. Some large telephone companies were also considering using the technology. The powerline device offers similar speeds and is used in a pilot programme by an electric company in Britain. Germany's largest power supplier, RWE AG has also conducted trials, Craig said. "It will cost about the same as an ISDN modem, but will be 10 times faster," he said. The one-megabit modem requires minimal changes to the telephone company's or Internet access provider's network. For the powerline device, electric companies must install switches that connect their electric cables to high-speed phone lines. Nortel is also working on a another technology called ADSL (asynchronous digital subscriber line) that is also several times faster than ISDN. Craig said Nortel thinks several types of high-speed access technologies will be successful. "We don't think any one technology is going to satisfy demand," he said. He also said ISDN, which is widely available in Germany and certain other countries, would probably lose out to ADSL and the others in the next decade. "People will continue to use ISDN, but ultimately these (existing) technologies will get swept away," he added.