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From: Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
Cc: "Jin Guojun[ITG]" <jin@george.lbl.gov>, freebsd-atm@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ATM drivers 
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Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
 > In message <199612071903.LAA16888@george.lbl.gov>, "Jin Guojun[ITG]" writes:
 > >:
 > >:Hmm, is there a TAXI (100 Mbit/sec) version of their card ?
 > >
 > >TAXI is FORE preparatory staff. No one else uses it. Now the standard is OC-3,
 > >and the newer one is OC-12.
 > 
 > Well, Cisco delivers TAXI too...
 >
Not in the any of the current generation switches. The only
justification for TAXI was the ready availability of optical
tranceivers from the FDDI market. Now that OC-3 and OC-12 tranceivers
are available at reasonable prices, TAXI is obsolete.

 > Ohh, well, the price you pay to start out early.  (We installed this net
 > in feb '94...)
 > 
Exactly. Though the cost of similar equipment today should be much
less than what you paid back then.

Pete