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The lead technical duo at Nexabit, now part of Lucent Technologies, uncovers the essentials of super-fast terabit routing for next millennium e-commerceCompanies such as Lucent, Cisco, and Juniper are racing to build a single converging network that will provide data, video, and voice services across a common network infrastructure. Revolutionizing this change is the terabit routing technology which moves data at more than one trillion bits of data per second_100 times faster than currently available. This book focuses on the key issues surrounding these super-fast switches and their leading role in building the next generation of lightning-fast networks. Some of the critical topics discussed include: the paradigm shift from circuit-switched networks to all packet networks, the reliability of voice gateways, and network traffic engineering issues.The Companion Web site features resources, interactive projects, utilities, and examples from the book.