From: Deepak Jain <deepak@jain.com> To: Tim Salo <salo@msc.edu> Cc: jprovo@ma.ultranet.com; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Ascend GRF400 Date: Thursday, April 24, 1997 10:35 AM

(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

Not exactly true, we have used a HSSI card from NetStar since October of last year. I know they have had a ethernet card after that but before Ascend. What really matters though is the software that runs the cards, and since Ascend has taken over we are seeing releases for upgrades and fixes coming alot faster. More people to throw at it.... Any way, we were a early adopter and have used all the cards that are available, from ethernet, fddi, hssi and atm. T1 card does not make allot of since to us, but it does to our customers and I know they are working on it as we have these discussion. Gary Zimmerman V.P. of Network Engineering Savvis Communications Corp. email: garyz@savvis.com http://www.savvis.com Office: 314.719.2423 Address: 7777 Bonhomme Suite 1000 St. Louis, MO 63105 ---------- though.

Just a thought,

-Deepak.

On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Tim Salo wrote:

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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