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To: RetiredNow who wrote (23546)	3/8/1999 5:00:00 PM
From: The Phoenix	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 77397

Yes, but the two are coming at it from different directions. Switching companies are plopping in ASIC's which have rudimentary IP routing while the routing companies are plopping in switching technology to backend their routing. The difference is rather important. Networks are getting more and more complex as we move to a multimedia word. The distinction is that most companies will move to a multiservice over IP world on the network edge and for this they will required really smart routers with rudimentary switching backends. Switches with rudimentary routing will not be able to address this shift - they don't have the expertise in house and will have to rely on these new complex processes being placed into silicon. Given that it has taken nearly 10 years to get rudimentary layer 3 onto silicon it will take that long - at least - to get the more complex mechanisms, such as QoS, into them going foward. There is little doubt that switches have a place on the backbone but the edge will be layer 3/4 and will be ruled by more complex and more capable routing devices. AND, many beleive that eventually the world will move to IP over WDM which in effect will leave little space for ATM type products.... OG