Re: Internet II is coming...

[Peter Lothberg <roll () Stupi SE>]

> > data, after SONET, ATM, IP and TCP overheads.
> >
> > Perhaps, I missed your point...
>
> Explicit: 6meg is not very fast for an uplink speed for a whole
>   ISP.
> Implicit: There seems to be a lot of: "It's ATM so it must be 
>     fast" going around.  This conclusion does not follow.
>
> regards,
> fletcher 


To move IP packets, it will always be faster without ATM than with ATM
at any given linerate. The rest is pricebstructure, tarrifs, politics
and marketing.

--Peter


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