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To: Sector Investor who wrote (13682)	5/24/1999 11:26:00 PM
From: Sector Investor	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42804

I've been working on comparison spreadsheets on the Next Generation Routers. I'm not too far yet, and not all vendors have all features, but this is starting to come along. I will keep expanding it as time permits. SI has such a lousy colmunar formatting. :-( The first 2 columns are competitors. The last 2 columns are ours Both our products look very strong against these 2 competitors. The "?" just means I haven't found the data yet As of now: Feature/Option Juniper Argon Linux Aranea Chassis width 35" 3 19" ? 19" Slots Provided 8 ? 18 23 Fully Redundant ? ? ? Yes IP Switching Yes Yes Yes Yes ATM Switching NO Yes Future Yes PacketOverSONET No No Future Yes Routing+Switch Yes No Yes Yes SONET Connect Yes ? Future Yes ATM Connect Yes ? Future Yes OC-12 Ports 32 32 64 128 OC-48 Ports 8 8 Future 32 10/100 Ports None None 128 None GE Ports None None 32 128 Capacity GBps 20GBps 20GBps 40GBps 128GBps Throughput Mpps ? ? 26Mpps 200Mpps Non Blocking Yes Yes Yes Yes Max Capacity 20GBps 160GBps 160GBps 4 Terabits Max Throughput ? ? 104Mpps 3200Mpps Max OC-12 Ports 32 256 256 2048 Max OC-48 Ports 8 64 Future 512 Max 10/100 Port None None 512 None Max GE Ports None None 128 2048 Max Trunking ? ? ? OC-768 Expandable NO 8 Boxes 4 Boxes 16 Boxes DWDM Connect Yes No Future Yes Pricing Base Price 55,000 100,000 Full Config ? ? 300,000 OC-12 Card 25,000 OC-48 Card ? 90,000 OC-12 Card 25,000 OC-3 Card 8,000 Protocols BGP-4 Yes Yes ? Yes IS-IS Yes Yes ? ? OSPF Yes Yes Yes Yes Shipping? ? No 3Q99 4Q99