Re: wiretapping continues....

[Curtis Villamizar <curtis () ans net>]

In message <9410311159.AA29666 () ameris center il ameritech com>, George H. Clapp
 writes:
> > Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 14:43:37 -0400
> > From: Vadim Antonov <avg () sprint net>
> > Subject: Re:  wiretapping continues....
> >
> > 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).
>
> Doesn't Sprint plan on offering an ATM service, and doesn't MFS
> Datanet provide an ATM backbone service?
>
> George Clapp
> voice:  708-765-2360
> fax:    708-765-3350
> email:  clapp () ameris ameritech com


Do you know any happy customers?  No traffic equals no scaling
problems.  Right?

Did you see Tim's NANOG presentation?  Seems they are having enough
trouble getting ATM to work in a point to point configuration on a
real network (with delay).  Matches our NAP test findings as well.

Not that ATM is hopeless, just the equipment may not be quite ready
for 1994 deployment in a critical Internet exchange point carrying
lots of TCP wide area traffic.  I think that is still an open question
(deploy first, figure out if it will work later?).

Curtis
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