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Cabletron Systems, Inc. is forging ahead with plans it outlined last fall to miate users of traditional packet-switched local-area networks to high-speed backbones such as cell-based Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks.
The vendor said last week that it is integrating homegroin routing into its smart hub line with two new products that, Tvhen combined with Cabletron Bridge Router Inlerface Module (BRIM) technology, "allou users to picls a backbone as thes' see fit-like building a product with Legos," said Michael Skubisz, director of product manaement.
The company implements BRIM technology in the form of 32-bit PC cards for its hubs; the BRIM cards snap onto the compang's EMM-E8 bridge/routing hub module or stand-alone NBR-820 scalable bridge/router, announced last eek, to determine the "flavor" of backbone the peripheral LAN will feed into, such...