While the Gigabit Ethernet market is yet to take off, system integrator Macroview Telecom remains unperturbed and keeps its faith on the technology that it has began offering three months ago in China and Hong Kong with the launch of Cisco's Gigabit Ethernet solutions. We are focusing our sights on China and Hong Kong.
China is an enormous market.
There is demand for Gigabit Ethernet in China. According to Tam, the kinds of Gigabit Ethernet solutions that Macroview offers its customers largely depends on each company's traffic characteristics and the size of their network. In most cases, we will propose the Cisco Catalyst 5500 and Catalyst 8500 to form the core switch with the addition of Multilayer Switching and Routing Processor. For a network with more than 500 ports, the solution often requires a core switch to take up as well as an access switch. Macroview suggests a Catalyst 5500 with Route Switch Module and Catalyst 5000 to form the backbone and connected by Gigabit Ethernet, and deploy Catalyst 2916 as access switch to extend the port number of Catalyst 5000.