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To: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net>
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Reply-To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, fkittred@mail.gwi.net
Subject: Re: Gigabit ethernet -- what am I doing wrong? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:59:44 EST."
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Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 08:48:02 -0500
From: Fletcher E Kittredge <fkittred@mail.gwi.net>
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On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 21:59:44 -0500  W Gerald Hicks wrote:
> Erm... Depends on what one wants to do with it  :)
> 
> I believe certain market segments would welcome a Gigabit
> Ethernet subsystem on a Rambus with huge memory buffers.

Hum, the only use of such cards would be PC routers?

You are talking with a builder/maintainer of PC routers :)

Having said that, our market niche is *way* small. I don't think this
is a profitable niche.  I think that one would be building so few
cards, the cost would be so great per card that it would be cheaper to
buy a Cisco.  There are many hidden costs to
developing/building/testing/maintaining/operating PC routers and
Ciscos are already probably cheaper in the long run.

regards,
fletcher


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