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Great article. I have been using the fact that Ethernet is broadcast to get customers to realize the defficienecies with using Ethernet as a WAN transport.

Your words are better than any I have used to address but your words also confirm what I've been saying.

We are running into this more as local residential ISP's are attempting to enter the enterprise network business.

Fine for regional companies with few locations but when building a national and world-wide network IT people don't seem to get it that Ethernet has its limitations.

I have often looked for articles to chronical the differences between Ethernet and traditional SONET technologies but few are found.

I have found and condensed articles on the RPR (resilient Packet Ring) architectures and even then the limitations are to metro-networks.

Thank you for your fine article. Just like I like em, brief and on-point.

Tom Holterman
Sales Engineer
Milwaukee, WI
thomas.holterman@globalcrossing.com

tholterm – Wed, 2006 – 03 – 08 16:53

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