Cell Relay Archive

[cwhyte@wellfleet.com (Christopher Whyte)]

>14 vendors were invited to participate in its ATM Stress test and seven
>did participate.
>
>Those seven participate:
>
>Bay Networks		Lattiscell
>Cisco Systems		Hyperswitch A100
>Digital Equipment	Gigaswitch ATM
>Fore Systems		Forerunner ASX-200
>Lightstream		Lightstream 2020
>Newbridge Network	Mainstreet 36150
>3Com			Cellplex 7000


>Fore seems to be tgetting the high marks, 3Com seems to be second except
>dropping cells at high burst, DEC and Lightstream are on a second tier
>and Newbridge, Cisco, and Bay Network are distant away. (this is my
>calculation based on the test result shown in that article)

I would not base my decision on that article. Actually any article that's
published in that magazine. It's a good magazine but don't base your buying
decisions on their performance tests. Also, don't get caught up in the
latency game. I suggest that you bring in the major vendors and do your OWN
testing and don't let the vendor tell you how to test their device (i.e. use
every other port on a particular switch). Vendors need to be involved in many
cases, but don't let them control the eval.

Chris