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Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?)
From: Sean Doran <smd () chops icp net>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 01:29:44 +0100
| At a certain point, some of these arguments about ATM efficiency sound a bit | like saying FDDI is terrible because 4B/5B encoding is | only 80% efficient. But FDDI has a *great* admission-control scheme. However, I almost concede your point. :) [*] | I think a more interesting measure of the value of ATM | versus other wide-area technologies is some sort of | measure of throughput per dollar. No kidding. Sean. P.S.: [*] almost, because in an application where one is using ATM as a single point-to-point PVC along a long-haul trunk that is to be used essentially exclusively for IP traffic, the cell tax seems really excessive. Given the movement towards cisco's packet-over-SONET, should that work and should others implement similar and preferably interoperable point-to-point interfaces, I will have to withdraw my almost-concession, except in cases where people _really_ want to do point-to-multipoint stuff. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Tim Salo (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Dave Siegel (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Sean Doran (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Curtis Villamizar (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Sean Doran (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Sean Doran (Jul 23)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Paul Ferguson (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Tim Salo (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Sean Doran (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Paul Ferguson (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Tim Salo (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Curtis Villamizar (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Michael Dillon (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Sean Doran (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) R. Eric Bennett (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Jim Forster (Jul 23)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Vincent J. Bono (Jul 26)
- Re: ATM Wide-Area Networks (was: sell shell accounts?) Dave Siegel (Jul 23)