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Re: ATM Utility
From: bmanning () ISI EDU
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 21:33:03 +1600 (PST)
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 14:43:37 -0400 From: Vadim Antonov <avg () sprint net> To: nanog () merit edu, schoff () us psi com, sesqui-all () ns sesqui net, sob () academ com Subject: Re: wiretapping continues.... Cc: psieng () psi com [...] We will hit limitations of the present/then-future routing technology long before we'll exhaust the possibilities to increase the NAP aggregate and access bandwidth by cheap incremental upgrades. That's the whole point of Sprint NAP architecture. ATM/SMDS/Flame Delay do not get even close to what we achieve (and ATM is not useful yet). [...]I believe that ATM, even in its perhaps immature state, is useful and cost-effective in a number of applications today. In particular, the cost of wide-area DS-3 ATM services can be very attractive when compared to a number of point-to-point DS-3s. -tjs
The minor point that might have been missed is that there is a tradeoff between point-to-point DS-3s (at 44.7Mbps in clear channel) vs ATM DS-3s (at 34Mbps w/ ATM framing). Now if I can get four ATM DS3s for less than I can get 3 point-to-point DS3s, then I can get a win. (raw bandwidth being about equal... :) --bill - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- Re: ATM Utility bmanning (Oct 31)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: ATM Utility Jon 'Iain' Boone (Nov 01)
- Re: ATM Utility Karl Denninger (Nov 01)
- Re: ATM Utility Pushpendra Mohta (Nov 01)
- Re: ATM Utility Bob Doyle (Nov 02)
- Re: ATM Utility Pushpendra Mohta (Nov 02)
- Re: ATM Utility Tim Salo (Nov 08)
- Re: ATM Utility Tim Salo (Nov 08)
- Re: ATM Utility Curtis Villamizar (Nov 08)
- Re: ATM Utility Pushpendra Mohta (Nov 08)
- Re: ATM Utility Curtis Villamizar (Nov 08)
- Re: ATM Utility Vadim Antonov (Nov 08)
(Thread continues...)