I admit it if the perspective is to build all or a part of the WIN NT suites in a kind of a hardware or ASIC is not clear for me, the questions that I would like to raise: What version of WIN NT? is it 4.0 or beyond..? How do we expect customers will be confident enough to make this step?, Is WIN NT reliable, stable in a customized ASIC hence WIN NT would be more suitable than the general purpose hardware architecture?. Implementing standard IPv4 services on the ASIC and optimizing that still on its early stages; i.e., mostly for inter LAN routing. So, do how that will work for WIN NT?. Let's do it for multi-routed protocols in the ASIC switches and think further for the high-level embedded applications. I agree it might be a good idea if embedded NT is doing a single task such as Web caching, but not a "full fledge" switch/router. Ehab H. Hadi Northern Telecom, LTD. Voice: (613) 763-2762 Fax: (613) 763-5199 E-Mail: ehabh@nortel.ca

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Hi all,

James Glave at Wired News again. This time around I am seeking opinions on behalf of a friend up at Wired (the print magazine) -- concerning embedded NT. I couldn't find any discussion in the nanog archive, so I'm wondering if anoyne here has any experience with, or knowledge of, embedding NT in networking hardware - if that even makes any sense....?

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From: Jesse Freund <freund@wired.com> i'm working on a piece about nt-embedded and i have a couple of questions. i'm hoping you might be able to hook me up with a smart network operator or someone else in the know or perhaps you know. basically, i'm curious why the hell someone would want a version of nt embedded in a switch or router? and who provides the custom solutions nt-embedded is meant to replace?

Thanks, all!

jtg

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