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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2678)	5/12/1999 2:21:00 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14638

Here is an article from ZD Net on router startups - Beware of the claims of Nexabit. zdnet.com Router Start-Ups Reach Milestone By Joe McGarvey May 12, 1999 10:27 AM ET The quest of high-speed router start-ups to wrestle control of the market from networking giant Cisco Systems reached a pivotal milestone this week at the Networld+Interop networking show in Las Vegas. At the annual industry event, two Internet Protocol router makers, Nexabit Networks and Pluris, unveiled details of separate evaluation trials with national service providers. A third player in the terabit router space, Avici Systems, moved into uncharted territory among the handful of upstarts by actually announcing commercial deployment of its equipment. Although modest achievements by industry standards, the breakthroughs signify an important step in the development of a new class of products that have been designed from the ground up to relieve increasing pressure on data pipes lining the core of the Internet. "It has gone to the point where it's no longer promises and wishful thinking," said Peter Chadwick, director of marketing at Avici. "It's turning into reality." Avici announced that GST Telecommunications, a service provider based in Vancouver, Wash., plans to deploy two of its Terabit Switch Routers (TSR) in the West Coast leg of a government-funded research network it is building in conjunction with Nortel Networks, Spring Communications and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The network project, part of the government's Next Generation Internet initiative, is a test bed for advanced applications and optical networking technology research. Nortel owns 20 percent of Avici. The fact that the TSRs are going into a research-oriented network did not diminish the impact of the announcement, according to Chadwick. "It proves GST is comfortable with the product," he said. "They will be looking at if for future deployment in their commercial networks." Also this week, Nexabit announced that service provider Frontier Communications is testing its NX64000 terabit router on Frontier's national backbone. Frontier officials said the new router would first be evaluated at speeds of 2.5 gigabits per second and eventually be hooked directly to Frontier's OC-192 (10 Gbps) optical gear. Nexabit officials say it will be the first router maker to deliver 10 Gbps interfaces, which the company plans to ship in June. Paul Santinelli, vice president of technology and applications at Frontier, said that moving up to OC-192 speeds is crucial to the company's ability to couple its connectivity services with its Web hosting, voice and recently announced messaging services. He added that Frontier also was evaluating equipment from other manufacturers. Finally, Pluris revealed that it has entered an evaluation agreement with Deutsche Telekom, the giant Germany telecommunications provider.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2678)	5/12/1999 2:56:00 PM
From: chechaco	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14638

I don't think that Nexabit claimed to HAVE and DEMONSTRATE OC-192. If you have heard otherwise please refer me to the source. Regarding Avici conncted through Nortel's OC-192 gear I'd like to point that there is no indication that it's connected at OC-192 and not at OC-48 or even lower speed. As we know there is such thing as OC-192c that is four channels of OC-48. I'd like to see Avici's announcement that they have OC-192. Have you see one? Sorry for that boring techno stuff. Regards, chehcaco