RE: What is ~10 Gb/s?

[gthompso@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Geoff Thompson)]

 Right.

I just wanted to cast my vote for making sure that the 2 items were decoupled.

Geoff

At 12:20 PM 6/21/99 -0500, Thirion, Walt wrote:
>>>> 

I haven't made any assumption, yet. I've just noticed in some of the messages the statement of management channels being important as part of the reason to directly connect to the WAN.

Walter Thirion 
Level One Communications 
512-407-2110 



> -----Original Message----- 
> From: owner-stds-802-3-hssg-speed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [<mailto:owner-stds-802-3-hssg-speed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>mailto:owner-stds-802-3-hssg-speed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of 
> Geoff Thompson 
> Sent: Monday, June 21, 1999 10:57 AM 
> To: Thirion, Walt 
> Cc: 'stds-802-3-hssg-speed@xxxxxxxx' 
> Subject: Re: What is ~10 Gb/s? 
>  
>  
>  
> At 01:04 AM 6/21/99 -0500, Thirion, Walt wrote: 
> >>>>  
>  
> Ok, I would like to get the discussion really going... 
>  
> 4. When we talk about a direct connection to the WAN, is there also an 
> assumption that we will pick up the integrated management, i.e. 
> self-healing Sonet rings? 
>  
> Walter Thirion  
> Level One Communications  
> 512-407-2110 
>  
> <<<< 
> Walt- 
>  
> I would not make ANY assumption about the integrated management. 
> It seems to me that managed or raw is a separate discussion.  
> The discussion 
> needs to be explicitly had separately so that 802.3  
> understands the issues.  
>  
> Geoff

>

<<<<


|=========================================|
| Geoffrey O. Thompson                    |
| Chair IEEE 802.3                        |
| Nortel Networks, Inc.  M/S SC5-02       |
| 4401 Great America Parkway              |
| P. O. Box 58185                         |
| Santa Clara, CA 95052-8185  USA         |
| Phone: +1 408 495 1339                  |
| Fax:   +1 408 988 5525                  |
| E-Mail: geoff_thompson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  |
| Please see the IEEE 802.3 web page at   |
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/index.html