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To: The Phoenix who wrote (23547)	3/8/1999 5:58:00 PM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 77397

Good to know. Thx for explanation.

To: The Phoenix who wrote (23547)	3/8/1999 6:31:00 PM
From: Frank Sheridan	Respond to of 77397

This maps into what my engineer friend said about how ATM is "last years" technology, and the hot new way to go is Gigabit Switch / Router aka GSR technology. Regards.

To: The Phoenix who wrote (23547)	3/9/1999 10:29:00 AM
From: Techplayer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 77397

Gary, I would agree that in the edge, routing technology does have advantages over switches. It is a longstanding Cisco argument that adding switching techniques to a router is the answer. this may be the case in the edge, but not in the backbone. Of note is that QoS features exist today inside of the silicon and can be implemented rather easily into programmable, expandable ASIC's. Startups such as Redstone (building high aggregation, chassis based edge switch router) has done it. The team there previously implemented QoS in the 3Com Corebuilder products. The jury is still out. Regards, Brian