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To: gbh who wrote (47191)	5/19/1998 11:15:00 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 61433

gbh, The Passport is Nortel's own box (not Fore's). It is a multiservice enterprise WAN switch similar to the Cisco IGX (from Stratacom). The Passport supports voice and data integration over an ATM trunk or using a proprietary frame/cell (or cell injection) protocol. Though there may be some overlap in functionality between the Passport and Ascend products they really focus on different solution sets (the Passport is a functional frame switch). In the multiservice enterprise WAN switch market the Passport is not doing too poorly. I would put NT more in the same court as LU for future direction rather than ASND's court. Tom You are responding to this message from gbh on May 19 1998 8:50PM EST NT is trying very hard right now to emulate Ascend with their Passport/Magellan ATM switches. They haven't been successful yet, but they are trying very hard. BTW aren't these FORE switches that Nortel just re-sells?