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- Giganet  network was promoted by Intel.
 
- It uses its own network protocol, discarding IP, but this is transparent to the software.
 
- It is not WAN routable.
 
- It is able to do 1 Gbps unidirectional communications
between the nodes at minimum latencies of 7 microseconds.
 
David Santo Orcero
2000-11-24