Re: Exchanges that matter...

[Vadim Antonov <avg () pluris com>]

Joe Rhett <joe () Navigist Com> wrote:

> The issue that everyone seems to be overlooking is network design
> flexibility. Even if ATM has higher overhead, you can only grow a FDDI
> network so much. It really isn't all that hard to max out most FDDI
> switches.

Nah.  The issue is that ATM is a rather expensive way to achieve nothing.

And, if you never heard about it before: FDDI is not what people use
to send data over backbone lines, no matter what trade mags show in their
cute pictures.

--vadim
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