RE: MCI

[Bharat Ranjan <bharatr () microsoft com>]

> >
>       > On Tue, 19 Mar 1996, Arun Welch wrote:
>       > 
> > Yup. There's work in progress to put IP directly on SONET, which should save
> > people with OC-3c backbones from paying the ATM penalty.

> Last year, I was involved with some vendor work that was being done to
> optimize the
> SONET payload for various protocols. In particular, the 'growth' bytes
> Z3, Z4, and/or Z5 in
> the SONET Path overhead would be used to optimize the payload size
> based on the
> protocol being used. The thought was that such an optimization would
> take place at the
> "edge" of the network, where local traffic is passed to a WAN, via
> SONET. ATM was being
> focused on in particular, especially with the concatenated (OC-Nc)
> payload. I was told that
> IP has now been added to the list of protocols that SONET would
> optimize/support. If this
> work comes out as a SONET standard, it would be a great plus when using
> OC-3c interfaces
> on routers.
>
>
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