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To: Chung Yang who wrote (10022)	6/3/1998 9:33:00 PM
From: E_K_S	Respond to of 64865

Hi Chung: That's good news regarding the low end. I just got back from the ATM trade show in San Jose and was quite surprised to see that a lot of the major vendors have designed ATM switches to work with Sun's Starfire servers. COMS, XYLN, CSCO, and LU (perhaps others too) all have high capacity ATM switches that work with the SUN high end server products. They also have joint marketing and technical design groups that work with SUNW to show customers the state-of-the art solutions for connecting high capacity band width (ie. ATM) pipes to these very powerful servers. In fact, the connection protocol is considered a standard for the industry and Sun's servers are found on many end-user networks. I left the show feeling very positive about Sun's high end products. In my book, Sun can be considered the CSCO equivalent in the server (high end) enterprise market. As a side note, I also found that 3COM has all the pieces to be a big player in the growing Networking market. They also happen to be a very close partner with SUN as many of their high end switches are used with SUN's Starefire high end server. EKS