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To: shane forbes who wrote (12757)	6/2/1998 1:30:00 AM
From: shane forbes	Respond to of 25814

(Cabletron debuts new ATM line, CS good customer of LSI, LSI top 5 in ATM, hence LSI doing CS ATM line??? - WAG) techweb.com ----- Cabletron To Debut ATM Switch Line By Monua Janah Cabletron Systems Inc. this week is expected to introduce an ATM switch line that includes a high-end LAN device called the SmartSwitch 9500, sources say. This move will follow price cuts last week on the GigaSwitch ATM inherited last year in the acquisition of Digital Equipment's networking unit. Cabletron also disclosed plans to enhance the GigaSwitch line. The price of 622-Mbps line cards for the GigaSwitch ATM that support the multimode fiber version was reduced by more than one-third to $9,675. The single-mode fiber version's price was slashed more than 40%, to $11,495. A firmware upgrade slated for this month will improve the GigaSwitch's ability to handle WAN traffic and to manage the switch via a Web browser. In September, a 622-Mbps line card with full redundancy will ship and an upgrade will support the Private Network-to-Network Interface, an industry standard for switch-routing that allows interoperability with other vendors' products. GigaSwitch will interoperate with Cabletron's forthcoming ATM line. Copyright r 1998 CMP Media Inc. --- shane.

To: shane forbes who wrote (12757)	6/2/1998 6:48:00 PM
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(Gates likes non-PC net connection methods - LSI 2nd in STBs and likely in top 3 in digital cameras) ---- Gates sees non-PC devices taking lead on Internet SEATTLE, June 2 (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates on Tuesday predicted that consumer devices such as televisions and cameras connected to the Internet would become more common than personal computers. "There's no doubt some time in the next three to 10 years we'll cross over that threshold," Gates said at a meeting of computer database experts. He said televisions, cameras and handheld "palmtop" devices would become increasingly important as the Internet becomes a more widely used vehicle for communications and business transactions. Gates said engineers would face challenges getting such devices to work together, and he said scalability continues to be a challenge as the Internet grows rapidly. As an example, Microsoft's recently acquired Hotmail free electronic mail service adds 100,000 users a day, he said. "At Microsoft we're pushing forward on scalability," he said. "It's never been our view that the PC has an upper bound." Gates also demonstrated Microsoft's TerraServer, a database of satellite photos that will be one of the largest on the Internet when it goes on line this month, with 800 gigabytes of data The project was created over the past 18 months by Microsoft's research group, which includes 300 researchers and will double to 600 by the year 2000. "This has been the fastest-growing part of Microsoft, and that will be the case for many, many years to come," he said. "I would like to see other software companies do more in this area." --- shane.