From: Mukul Agrawal <mukul@ssdc.honeywell.com>
Subject: Re: ATM Switch Info
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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 16:35:25 GMT

> Subject:  ATM Switch Info Request
> We are setting up a lab to study high-speed networks for
multimedia and
> control. In particular, we would like to get information on ATM
switches,
> and host interfaces that may be available for sale by 1st quarter
of 1993.
.
.
.
> -- Mukul

In response to my earlier inquiry, here are all the responses that I
recieved. I have just included the messages and e-mail addresses. I
would like to thank all the people who responded to my request.

-- Mukul (mukul@ssdc.honeywell.com)

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>From: johnc@msc.edu (John D. Cavanaugh)
Fore Systems, Inc.
1000 Gamma Drive, Suite 504
Pittsburgh, PA  15238-2940
   (412) 967-4040

MPR Teltech Ltd.
8999 Nelson Way
Burnaby, BC
Canada  V5A 4B5
   (604) 294-1471

ADAPTIVE Corp.
200 Penobscot Drive
Redwood City, CA  94063-4740
   (415) 366-9500

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>From: HELLSTRO@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi (DON'T MESS WITH THE MISSIONARY
MAN)
Try to contact Mr Aarne Rainvuori, Product Marketing,
Nokia Telecommunications: E-mail - rainvuor@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi

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>From: 	cjl@mbunix.mitre.org
Regarding your request for information concerning ATM switch
manufacturers, 
the following are among the growing list of those who currently sell
ATM 
switches.  Try also Bolt, Beranek, and Newman (BBN).

FYI, we have purchased a Fore switch and interface cards and have
ordered 
switches from MPR Teletech (scheduled for delivery in December).

Fore Systems Incorporated
   2021B Murray Avenue                                              
           
   Pittsburgh, PA 15217                                             
           
                                                                    
           
   Netname: FORE                                                    
           
   Netnumber: 192.88.243.0                                          
           
                                                                    
           
   Coordinator:                                                     
           
      Cooper, Eric  (EC151)  eric.cooper@cs.cmu.edu                 
           
      (412) 422-5944                                                
           
                                                                    
           
   Domain System inverse mapping provided by:                       
           
                                                                    
           
   RELAY.FORE.COM               192.88.243.14                       
           
   CHARON.PSC.EDU               128.182.65.6                        
           
                                                                    
           

MPR Teltech Ltd.                                                  
   8999 Nelson Way                                                  
           
   Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 4B5                                
           
   CANADA                                                           
           
                                                                    
           
   Netname: MPR-ATD1                                                
           
   Netnumber: 192.83.101.0                                          
           
                                                                    
           
   Coordinator:                                                     
           
      Neill, Robert  (RN94)  [No mailbox]                           
           
      (604) 293-6008                                                
           
                                                                    
           

GTE Government Systems                                        
   Building 7                                                       
           
   77 A Street                                                      
           
   Needham Heights, MA 02194                                        
           
                                                                    
           
   Netname: GTE-NEEDHAM                                             
           
   Netnumber: 155.95.0.0                                            
           
                                                                    
           
   Coordinator:                                                     
           
      Shakley, Scott  (SS424)  SSHAKLEY@GTE3.GTE.COM                
           
      617-455-2071                                                  
           
                                                                    
           

ADAPTIVE Corporation                                              
   200 Penobscot Drive                                              
           
   Redwood City, CA 94063                                           
           
                                                                    
           
   Domain Name: ADAPTIVE.COM                                        
           
                                                                    
           
   Administrative Contact:                                          
           
      Hathaway, Anne  (AH189)  anne@adaptive.com                    
           
      (415) 366-9500                                                
           
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:                                 
           
      Mayes, John  (JM867)  jcm@JMA.COM                             
           
      415/364-1127                                                  
           

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>From: 	ded@fore.com

You may find the following information of interest. I would
be happy to send you further details about our ATM
networking products if you are interested.

Regards,

Dwight Dietrich
Fore Systems, Inc

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Fore Systems' ATM LAN products are now available to meet the
networking
needs of distributed multimedia systems.  They provide the high
capacity and flexible multiplexing needed to integrate high-quality
image, live video, and audio communication with traditional data
communication.  And they are based on the international Asynchronous
Transfer Mode (ATM) standard ensuring compatibility with other ATM
networks, both local-area and long-distance.

Fore Systems' high-performance ATM Switches are the key to delivering
the performance for multimedia systems.  The ATM switches form the
core
of ATM LANs.  They interconnect workstations over dedicated
fiber-optic
links.  In addition, they can be connected together enabling you to
build larger ATM LANs as your ATM networking requirements grow.

Fore Systems' ATM LAN delivers high-performance ATM communication to
personal computers and engineering workstations through ATM Computer
Interfaces.  Each interface includes special hardware support for ATM
communication.  Every computer that is equipped with an ATM computer
interface has a dedicated fiber-optic link to one of Fore Systems'
ATM
switches, allowing users to take full advantage of the
high-performance
communication offered by Fore Systems' ATM LAN.

Fore Systems' line of ATM Computer Interfaces includes the SBA-100
for
Sun SPARCstations, the TCA-100 for DECstation 5000s, and the GIA-100
for SGI Iris Indigo workstations.  Fore Systems' ATM interfaces come
with device driver software allowing existing IP/TCP applications to
make immediate use of ATM LANs, as well as an ATM Application
Programming Interface that enables multimedia applications to take
advantage of the capabilities of ATM LANs. We have plans for both
EISA and MCA
ATM interfaces later this year.

All of the ATM Computer Interface products are available in both 100
megabits-per-second versions (conforming to the draft ATM Forum UNI
Specification) and 140 megabits-per-second versions.  

Fore Systems' ASX-100 line of ATM LAN switches support up to 16 ATM
connections and up to 2.5 gigabits-per-second switching bandwidth. 
The
ASX switch products include complete switch control software,
allowing
dynamic virtual connection establishment and resource control, as
well
as SNMP-based network management software.

The ASX-100 line of switches is currently available in two basic
configurations: the ASX-110 is a self-contained ATM switch including
a
SPARC switch control processor; the ASX-111 is packaged in the same
enclosure as the ASX-110 but requires a customer-supplied
SPARCstation
for its switch control processor.

Both the ASX-100 and ASX-111 are available in 8-connection and
16-connection versions (upgrades from 8 to 16 connections are also
available).  In addition, as with Fore Systems' ATM Computer
Interface
products, the ASX-100 and ASX-111 are both available in 100 and 140
megabits-per-second versions.

All of Fore Systems' current ATM LAN products operate over
FDDI-compatible multimode fiber.

Please contact Fore Systems for price quotes or additional product
information.  You can reach Fore Systems by phone at 412-967-4040, by
FAX at 412-967-4044, or by email at <info@fore.com>

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>From: alie@asl.dl.nec.com	(Andrew Lie)
NEC America, Inc. has ATM products available now for your
considerations.
Please direct inquiry to our marketing department (214) 518-5000.

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>From: little <little@mprgate.mpr.ca>
I have forwarded your request to Peter Briscoe at MPR Teltech Ltd., 
who have been supplying ATM switches for about a year to Bellcore, 
Sun, and others.

A comment on the PHY layer interface:  We are developing a very 
low cost STS-3 PHY interface for the LOCAL interface, with
sponsorship 
from Sun, HP, BNR (Northern Telecom), SynOptics, Interphase, and a
host 
of other companies (16 in total).

This interface will be available early next year.  It is likely to
become
the 'standard' PHY layer interface for both Local and Network
interfaces.
Sun plans to put a version of this interface on every SPARC Station 
motherboard in the 1994 time frame, and SynOptics will be deploying
hubs
with these interfaces starting in 1993.

From my admittedly biased point of view, I think other PHY layer 
interfaces are a dead end, so your comment about eventually ending
up 
with some other PHY layer seems reversed:  They will cost more, and
will 
not have unshielded twisted pair transmission capability, so what's
the 
point. SONET based framing technology is a true networking protocol, 
whereas other techniques are just fancy serial to parallel
convertors.

The SUNI chip, as we call it will sell for less than $50.00 in
volume.
It integrates complete SONET framing, ATM cell processing, FIFO
buffering,
complete diagnostic and performance monitoring functions, and high
speed
serial interface (155 Mbit/s) in a single chip.

A complete port card using a twisted pair interface will cost about
$70.00
for the components.  



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