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Re: (ASCEND) GRF: up to it? (fwd)
At 02:31 PM 11/26/97 -0800, MegaZone wrote:
>Once upon a time Andy Walden shaped the electrons to say...
>>Yep. I have one too. Actually was kinda thinking of using it for that
>>until Ascend corrected me, the TNT is not a router. Plus, it doesn't do
>>BGP.
>
>If it is not a router, why the hell do they sell things like the FrameLine
>card which are good for nothing except T1 connections? You do need to
>route them, and do it efficiently. And they claim you can have mutltuple
>FL cards in a chassis...
The TNT is indeed a router. And a NAS, and an xDSL DSLAM, and a few other
things. I think I recently explained the difference between a single
processor Max 4000 and a distributed processing TNT. The TNT can accomodate
heavy routing that the Max 4000 cannot.
Matt Holdrege http://www.ascend.com matt@ascend.com
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