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ATM Utility
From: tjs () msc edu (Tim Salo)
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 94 20:22:49 -0600
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 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- ATM Utility Tim Salo (Oct 30)
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- Re: ATM Utility Vadim Antonov (Oct 31)