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- From: lui@kitaro.nsc.com (Michael Lui)
- Subject: Re: Application Specific Switching Processors
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.012712.13581@berlioz.nsc.com>
- Keywords: atm, frame relay, switches
- Sender: lui@kitaro (Michael Lui)
- Organization: National Semiconductor Corporation
- References: <1992Dec24.045318.18879@unet.net.com> <1993Jan7.091232.13657@unet.net.com> <1993Jan7.193136.28931@berlioz.nsc.com> <1993Jan11.061952.28086@unet.net.com>
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:27:12 GMT
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- Sorry for my ignorance because I'm still a beginner in this switching technology.
- I still have some questions. For instance, I like to connect an end station to a
- data base server. In between them, there will be more than one switching nodes.
- According to what you say, during vc setup (if there is an ASSP exists), signaling
- procedure should put this ASSP node in the vc route. In this way, when cells
- route through this ASSP, part or all of the data base query should be done in
- this node. As a result, when cells arrive at the data base server, only minimum
- amount of work will be needed to finish up the request. If this is true, some
- complicating handshaking work have to be done between the ASSP and the server to
- make sure no duplication of work happens. This is my understanding of how this
- ASSP node works. Correct me if I'm wrong.
-
- Mike Lui
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