Re: Which pipe dream should we be smoking? (was Re: Possible topic?)
Aren't all the Gigaswitches from DEC ATM backed anyway? (FDDI is an emulation on an OC3/12 card slot?) That's what the DEC literature seemed to say when I perused it last.
Not. Gigaswitch is a crossbar-based _packet_ switch. I recall reading fairly comprehensive article on its internals. Most likely it is still available from somewhere on Internet. If i understand correctly, its ATM interfaces do packet shredding/reassembly. --vadim
Vadim Antonov writes:
Not. Gigaswitch is a crossbar-based _packet_ switch. I recall reading fairly comprehensive article on its internals. Most likely it is still available from somewhere on Internet.
If i understand correctly, its ATM interfaces do packet shredding/reassembly.
There are two different gigaswitches, the Gigaswitch/FDDI and the Gigaswitch/ATM. They are dissimilar internally and as far as I can tell share little more than the name.
The comprehensive paper is from the Digital Technical Journal: http://www.digital.com/info/DTJD01/DTJD01SC.TXT
Not. Gigaswitch is a crossbar-based _packet_ switch. I recall reading fairly comprehensive article on its internals. Most likely it is still
--vadim
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