[HECnet] DECnet et al

[Paul Koning]

On Jul 17, 2011, at 4:39 PM, <hvlems at zonnet.nl> wrote:

Well the term bridge is firmly written in my own memory :-)
Tou mentioned that other company, and I'm trying to remember that name too. Was it something with 'sea" in it? 

No... I just found it.   Kalpana.   Their technology claim to fame was cut through bridging, as opposed to store & forward, so they invented the term "switching" for that.   But the cut through stuff is just an optimization, and on half-duplex Ethernet a questionable one at best.   It existed somewhat with 100Mb Ethernet, I think, and disappeared in Gigabit Ethernet only to come back with 10G Ethernet.   Interesting...

Still, though, it's just a bridge, no matter what you call it.

	paul