Just got a call from Worldcom; here's what they told me. Apparently the core gigaswitch will periodically reset and switch to another processor, which may cause brief outages. Worldcom and DEC techs are trying to reproduce this in a lab so that they can figure out exactly what's causing it. Life on the bleeding edge is /so/ much fun. (NOT!) ********************************************************* J.D. Falk voice: +1-650-482-2840 Supervisor, Network Operations fax: +1-650-482-2844 PRIORI NETWORKS, INC. http://www.priori.net "The People You Know. The People You Trust." *********************************************************
[ snip Worldcom/DEC gigaprobs ] Does anyone know if DEC manufactures the gigaswitch itself, or is it OEM'd, and from whom? Regards, -- Martin Hannigan Email: hannigan@xcom.net Director of Network Operations Pager: page-hannigan@xcom.net XCOM Technologies, Inc. Phone: 617.500.0108 Cambridge, MA Fax: 617.500.0002
DEC designed the GigaSwitch. Don't know if they still build it or not. On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Martin Hannigan wrote:
[ snip Worldcom/DEC gigaprobs ]
Does anyone know if DEC manufactures the gigaswitch itself, or is it OEM'd, and from whom?
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Here is the dec GIGAswitch/FDDI Multitechnology Switch http://www.networks.digital.com/html/products_guide/hp-swch3.html Hope this helps some Henry R. Linneweh Paul Love wrote:
DEC designed the GigaSwitch. Don't know if they still build it or not.
On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Martin Hannigan wrote:
[ snip Worldcom/DEC gigaprobs ]
Does anyone know if DEC manufactures the gigaswitch itself, or is it OEM'd, and from whom?
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ E. Paul Love voice 802 254-9087 5 Whipple St. fax 802 254-5783 Brattleboro VT 05301 epl@sover.net
Does anyone know if DEC manufactures the gigaswitch itself, or is it OEM'd, and from whom?
DEC manufactures it. (I doubt if anyone, anywhere else, still has an ECL fab that can make what a GIGAswitch has inside it.) Y'know, for a long while we've been happy with FDDI for interconnects since it was the fastest non-ATM LANish thing available and it had a decent sized MTU. But FDDI is in end-of-life and I sure am glad that DEC announced plans to build gigabit ethernet switches. <clink> here's to 10 more years of non- junk interconnect hardware.
Then you should know that DEC does not manufacture their GIGAswitch/Ethernet. They OEM the Cajun P550 switch from Prominent. DEC has added software support for hunt groups between their new Fast Ethernet card for the GIGAswitch/FDDI and the GbE switch. Steven At 01:19 AM 11/5/97 -0800, Paul A Vixie wrote:
Does anyone know if DEC manufactures the gigaswitch itself, or is it OEM'd, and from whom?
DEC manufactures it. (I doubt if anyone, anywhere else, still has an ECL fab that can make what a GIGAswitch has inside it.)
Y'know, for a long while we've been happy with FDDI for interconnects since it was the fastest non-ATM LANish thing available and it had a decent sized MTU. But FDDI is in end-of-life and I sure am glad that DEC announced plans to build gigabit ethernet switches. <clink> here's to 10 more years of non- junk interconnect hardware.
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On Wed, Nov 05, 1997 at 01:19:34AM -0800, Paul A Vixie wrote:
Does anyone know if DEC manufactures the gigaswitch itself, or is it OEM'd, and from whom?
DEC manufactures it. (I doubt if anyone, anywhere else, still has an ECL fab that can make what a GIGAswitch has inside it.)
Which they're selling to Intel, now, right? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Pedantry. It's not just a job, it's an Tampa Bay, Florida adventure." -- someone on AFU +1 813 790 7592
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