(I do not know if this is true, but it is a guess). That the Netstar product did the ATM routing extremely well. I believe that was its market originally.. All of the other cards, the ether, the new T1 line cards (hah-hah) maybe even the HSSI cards are all new since Ascend took them over, to broaden their market. I hear their ATM interfaces are great, haven't played with them yet though. Just a thought, -Deepak. On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Tim Salo wrote:
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 06:12:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Joe Provo - Network Architect <jprovo@ma.ultranet.com> To: neil@domino.org Subject: Re: Ascend GRF400 Cc: nanog@merit.edu [...] - the grf is not all of ascend. maybe they finally got things right? [...]
It is probably useful to differentiate between Netstar, which was recently acquired by Ascend, and the rest of Ascend. The GigaRouter was developed by Netstar prior to its acquisition by Ascend.
-tjs