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To: Sector Investor who wrote (13749)	5/30/1999 12:06:00 PM
From: Sector Investor	Respond to of 42804

This is an interesting White Paper from the Nexabit site on the need for Terabit routers. The entire article is interesting, but I want to highlight a few points: Specifically, look at figure 3, about halfway through the article. I mean REALLY LOOK at where we are on that curve. The section below, titled "Bandwidth Growth Creating Issues at the Network Core" is also important to read - among others things, they talk about inability to scale. Finally, near the end of the article, the section "Fiber, DWDM, and Terabit Routers Must be Deployed Simultaneously " contains this text: "All three elements—fiber, DWDM, and terabit switch/routers—must be available and scale simultaneously to keep up with exponentially increasing demands for bandwidth. Switch/routers must scale interface speeds and port densities to match fiber and DWDM capacities. This requires switch/routers to have a very high-capacity, low-latency switch fabric to support the increasing volumes of existing and emerging applications and scaling requirements of service providers." nexabit.com