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To: chitchat who wrote (15815)	8/6/1998 2:16:00 AM
From: Bindusagar Reddy	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77400

Chitchat, what do you think about ASND products and their strategy of ASCEND SIGNAL GATEWAY SS7 with Stratus, CORE SWITCHES, especially the GX 550 which can connect directly to DWDM. Will this eventually become the backbone and be a killer application. Again I am not talking about packet switching, I am talking about multiservice strategy and relieving congestion strategy. Comment on recent Williams award winning strategy of the direct connection to the fiberoptics with ATM and DWDM equipment eliminating expensive SONET gear and crosss connects.

To: chitchat who wrote (15815)	8/6/1998 8:49:00 AM
From: mrclinton	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 77400

<< Imagine an earthquake like 1989 quake in SFO and you get 160 million phone calls into the city for the entire day with each one holding onto the phone for 15 minutes. Can CISCO solve this problem (provide a switch/router/convergence BS) in 1 year from now at the same time sending data traffic across.?.>> Sorry people on seeing this just had to fly the ASND flag again. In terms of call setup capacities the traditional switches are already beat. DMS100 or a 5ESS (NT and LU) can only do 1 million call setups per hour in busy hour. GX550 from ASND by comparison does 8 million, I don't think there's a capacity problem here, just a few nay-sayers trying to ruin the party. Ericsson, Nokia, Alcatel, NEC, NT, LU, these guys are all filling their pants over the prospect of their core business evaporating over the next few years. They have seen the writing on the wall, this is customer requirement, not hype as Forrester tries to suggest, thats why they are either buy data companies or getting into cosy alliances with them. CSCO will match or beat the old school in the same way. Bill

To: chitchat who wrote (15815)	8/7/1998 1:12:00 AM
From: Ed Robichaud	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77400

"Imagine an earthquake like 1989 quake in SFO and you get 160 million phone calls into the city for the entire day with each one holding onto the phone for 15 minutes." I did not know that SF had 160 million phones? Last time I looked SF had approx 1 million people. Even the Bay Region has only 7 million. That's one hell of a large amount of extra lines, faxes, computers to make up the 153 million difference. So how do you come up with 160 million? Or were you grasping for a number?