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Technology Stocks : Ascend Communications (ASND) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: djane who wrote (50284)	7/22/1998 7:29:00 PM
From: djane	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 61433

NetDetective rumor re ASND FR switches "Wiping the sleep from my eyes, I listened to Lotta's chatter about her day. She told me that Ascend later this month will unveil multiservice extensions to its line of frame relay switches." Full story July 20, 1998 techweb.cmp.com In The Window And In Danger I had fallen asleep while looking out my window, my full-leg cast propped up on the sill. I was dreaming about Allied Telesyn's new Layer 3 Gigabit Ethernet switch, which is scheduled to debut this week. Then, suddenly, I was awakened with a kiss. But it wasn't just a kiss. It was a 200-terabyte, wave-division-multiplexed, water-cooled smooch. It was the kind of kiss that drew dinosaurs to the tar pits and system software developers out of their labs. It was the kind of kiss that melted my disk drive and left me a steaming heap of unglued hardware. Only one woman could kiss like that--Lotta Memory, my assistant, network manager and sometime girlfriend. She had sneaked into my apartment to bring me some dinner. "You keep kissing me like that, I'm likely to stay in this cast forever," I said as she went to the kitchen to prepare the meal. I told her that XLNT is preparing to release an ATM module for its Gigabit Ethernet switches, a development that could give it the fastest Gigabit-to-ATM backplane in the industry. Wiping the sleep from my eyes, I listened to Lotta's chatter about her day. She told me that Ascend later this month will unveil multiservice extensions to its line of frame relay switches. Then, suddenly, I remembered what I had seen a few hours before in the apartment across the way. A greasy man was cleaning up the pieces of a broken computer. A sledgehammer lay nearby. He was packing the pieces into a suitcase. "He's murdered his wife's Web site," I said to Lotta. "I just know it." I also told her that Intergraph Computer Systems this week will launch a new 3-D graphics technology that sets new records for price and performance. "Oh, Case," Lotta said dismissively. "Lots of people have sledgehammers. And lots of people have suitcases. It doesn't mean he killed anybody's Web site." She also said that Allaire is planning to give away HomeSite, its popular HTML editor, as a way to compete with Microsoft's FrontPage and get users to look more closely at its ColdFusion Web development environment. But when Lotta looked out the rear window and saw the greasy man packing computer pieces into his suitcase and leaving with it, she knew something was wrong. "I'm going over there for a look around," she said. "I can pick the lock with my cable splicer." She also said that the Enterprise Storage Resource Management Workgroup is meeting this week to work on standards for storage subsystem infrastructure. I begged her not to go over to the man's apartment--he looked dangerous--but Lotta wouldn't hear of it. The next thing I knew, I saw Lotta through the man's apartment window. She was rifling through his computer desk when I saw him returning to his apartment door. Help Case warn Lotta! Send him a news tip! E-mail it to ndetect@cmp.com or call 516-562-7809. If we use your tip, Case will mail you an InternetWeek coffee mug. Snooping around? Look at last week's Net Detective.