Re: ATM

[Petri Helenius <pete () he iki fi>]

Philip Lavine wrote:

> I plan to design a hub and spoke WAN using ATM. The
> data traversing the WAN is US equities market data.
> Market data can be in two flavors multicast and TCP
> client/server. Another facet of market data is it is
> bursty in nature and is very sensitive to packet loss
> and latency (like voice). What type of ATM AAL format
> would be best for this topology? Is there any other
> concerns I should be aware of.
>  
Maybe the small fact that ATM is fading away and building new networks 
with technology going away is going to explode your operational cost in 
a few years time. Business grade IP networks will provide you with equal 
if not better performance than a "dedicated" ATM WAN.

(in addition to the fact that you probably posted your question in the 
wrong forum)

Pete