At 02:23 PM 4/25/96 -0400, ipasha@sprintlink.net wrote:

On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Jeremy Porter wrote:

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I know of plans for at least 2 exchanges that will use 100baseTx as a connection option. The only real problem is the backplane limit of boxes that switch 100baseTX, (Cisco Cat 5000, 1.2gbps). This is only slightly better than the Dec Gigaswitch limit of 800mbps.

DEC Gigaswitch is actually a 3.6Gb/s switch

Ye olde trick aggregate bandwidth answer. I know that one. ;-) - paul

--Ismat