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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (5633)	5/4/1998 3:01:00 AM
From: czycz	Respond to of 6980

Lerxst- any comments? Where's Vepoc?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (5633)	5/4/1998 9:21:00 AM
From: Bruce D. Miller	Respond to of 6980

Hi Kenneth, The Accelar Switch is intended for switched backbone applications. So, it is a network center switch, not a "desktop switch". The purpose of Gigabit is essentially to deliver the infrastructure to allow 100BASE-X (100 Meg) to the desktop for large networks. It is primarily intended to be deployed in risers, switch interconnects, and to server farms. At this point, Gigabit only operates over optical media, so the horizontal wiring can not be used for this application. Personally, I don't see desktop applications for this technology for a while. Note that the transition to switched 100BASE-X is just starting relative to the desktop. Hope this helps. Regards, Bruce