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Re: ATM Switches with ABR

  • From: jwwhite@postoffice.ptd.net (H&K4Me)
  • Date: 11 Dec 1996 13:14:56 GMT

THe ABR standard was taken from Stratacom's Foresight(sp?) so I would
say that Cisco would have a leg up on ABR.

			Joe



On Mon, 09 Dec 1996 15:24:28 -0700, Mike Granger
<granger@wizard.cusys.edu> wrote:

>Thomas Renger wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I was just wondering whether somebody reading this newsgroup knows about
>> any commercial ATM switch which already has the ABR protocol running (I
>> don't mean only in the advertisements and product catelogues but rather
>> in reality).
>> 
>> Any hints about adapter cards for PCs or workstations with ABR
>> functionality?
>> 
>> All comments and information is welcome!
>> 
>> Regards, Thomas
>
>	Not to go into the details of what true ABR is, but I'm told that Cisco
>has implemented actual standards-based ABR on their Lightstream 1010
>switch.
>-- 
>
>Michael Granger
>University of Colorado
>University Management Systems
>Network/Datacomm Specialist
>(303)492-9966
>email: mike.granger@cusys.edu