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To: EPS who wrote (25343)	2/8/1999 2:39:00 PM
From: Frederick Smart	Respond to of 42771

Intelligent Soft Routing Solutions Will Rise To The Top..... >>If his technique does work, there would seem to be great demand for it. Almost everyone agrees that greater Internet efficiency will be crucial as vast new torrents of data pour onto the network through new voice and video communications services. What is still subject to debate is how best to accommodate this traffic. Industry leaders like Cisco Systems Inc., the biggest maker of so-called router hardware for directing network traffic, insist that the only way to increase the current Internet's carrying capacity is to build bigger, more expensive routers. But Huang, card deck and group-theory mathematics in hand, contends that he has conceived a novel way to string together the kind of less-expensive routers already widely used on the Internet to expand its data-carrying capacity.>> Looks like Huang needs a new platform that doesn't exist BECAUSE of bloat and BIG IRON. Suggest that Huang pay a visit to Eric Schmidt and his colleagues. The world is moving away from bloated, expensive, poor quality attempts at solutions to basic problems involving data, capacity, etc. I say we are on the verge of intelligent "soft routing" solutions to our capacity needs. The Internet is too smart to let the Huang's of the world hang on the shelf too much longer. Look what the Internet is doing for our baby, Novell. Hang em Huang! Position yourself. Play one against the other. Get your act solid with patents, etc. Let the world find a route to your doorstep. The Ciscos of the world will have to migrate to more value-added solutions to these basic problems. Why is NDS turning heads right now. It's just the right solution for what the Internet and the enterprise needs NOW, not later. Your day will come, soon. Internet time.....

To: EPS who wrote (25343)	2/8/1999 2:43:00 PM
From: DJBEINO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42771

14:24 [NOVL] NOVELL AND ACTIVCARD PLAN NETWORK SECURITY SOLUTION.

To: EPS who wrote (25343)	2/13/1999 1:32:00 PM
From: Scott C. Lemon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42771

Hello Victor, > February 8, 1999 > > One Man's Dream to Spin a Faster Web > > By JOHN MARKOFF > > PALO ALTO, Calif. -- As Alan Huang sees it, the key to the > Internet's future may lie in a simple card trick. This is a facinating article in a couple of ways ... first, it leads me to do some research into "group theory" and it's applicability to networks. I looked into Evariste Galois and now recall the story of his duel ... now I need to find more material on his theories ... But in looking for Terabit Routers, the company that Alan Huang founded, and I can't even find a web site. Although the competitors listed in the article seem to be alive and well. In my opinion, the idea of improving the Internet performance issues by increasing the size of the pipes, and the "forwarding rates" of the core routers, just won't do it. To me, there are two core types of Internet data ... real-time streams ("flows"), and static objects. Today these are both made up of packets that are "flowing" through the infrastructure of the Internet. A couple of years ago I posted on these boards my beliefs that people designing the infrastructure will one day wake up to the fact that "object routing" and real-time "flow management" will become the higher-level, more efficient ways to deal with information on the Internet. Instead of trying to make packets move faster, deal with the static objects (i.e. web pages, GIFs, JPGs, multi-media files) as whole objects ... not a bunch of packets. If the infrastructure of the Internet understands whole objects, these objects can then be leveraged for higher-level information, and also cached. And it is this ability to cache the objects that then relieves the traffic bottle necks ... it doesn't have to flow through the infrastructure of the Internet if there is a cached copy near you! ;-) Oh yes, caching is core to this concept ... and a proxy/cache, in my opinion, is an "object router" .... and BorderManager and it's underlying technology are the foundation of a very high-performance, commodity hardware object router. If object routing is implemented properly, then the only remaining "packet" traffic is real-time "flows", and other objects with a high rate of change. The "flows" are primarily your "video/voice over IP" communications or real-time broadcasts which require that the information arrives end-to-end with minimal latency. And yes, for those techies out there, even these flows could be viewed as very small objects which have a very quick expiration time ... So cool stuff reading about these terabit routers, but I'm a fan of moving up the ISO model ... Scott C. Lemon