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RE: Q:Why router with ATM interface comes out earlier than pure SONET interface?
From: George Janosik <gjanosik () torrentnet com>
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 18:57:10 -0400
At 06:32 PM 8/3/98 , Christian Kuhtz wrote:
| Okay, so given all the great features that ATM is supposed to have | and the only thing that really sucks about it is the overhead due to the 53 | byte cell size, the obvious question is why can't there be an ATM standard | with, say, 197 ( 4 times the current 48 byte payload) or even 389 ( 8 | times 48 ) byte cells? | Is there something magic about 53 or is the IP over ATM application | still so 'obscure' that there is no interest?
The old story was that the Telco guys wanted 32 byte payload and the data guys wanted a 64 byte payload and the ITU split the difference. Go figure. TORRENT NETWORKING TECHNOLOGIES CORP Next Generation Routing and Services George Janosik Sr Systems Engineer New Business Development 412.851.1103 gjanosik () torrentnet com <http://www.torrentnet.com/>http://www.torrentnet.com
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- Q:Why router with ATM interface comes out earlier than pure SONET interface? Yu Ning (Aug 02)
- Re: Q:Why router with ATM interface comes out earlier than pure SONET interface? Tony Li (Aug 03)
- Re: Q:Why router with ATM interface comes out earlier than pure SONET interface? George Janosik (Aug 03)
- Re: Q:Why router with ATM interface comes out earlier than pure SONET interface? Alan Hannan (Aug 03)
- RE: Q:Why router with ATM interface comes out earlier than pure SONET interface? Christian Kuhtz (Aug 03)
- RE: Q:Why router with ATM interface comes out earlier than pure SONET interface? brad (Aug 03)
- RE: Q:Why router with ATM interface comes out earlier than pure SONET interface? Christian Kuhtz (Aug 03)
- RE: Q:Why router with ATM interface comes out earlier than pure SONET interface? Christian Kuhtz (Aug 03)
- Re: Q:Why router with ATM interface comes out earlier than pure SONET interface? Tony Li (Aug 03)
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- Re: Q:Why router with ATM interface comes out earlier than pure SONET interface? Sean Donelan (Aug 03)
- Re: Q:Why router with ATM interface comes out earlier than pure SONET interface? Tony Li (Aug 03)
- RE: Q:Why router with ATM interface comes out earlier than pure SONET interface? Christian Kuhtz (Aug 03)
- RE: Q:Why router with ATM interface comes out earlier than pure SONET interface? George Janosik (Aug 03)
- Re: Q:Why router with ATM interface comes out earlier than pure SONET interface? Michael Dillon (Aug 03)
- RE: Q:Why router with ATM interface comes out earlier than pure SONET interface? Christian Kuhtz (Aug 03)
- RE: Q:Why router with ATM interface comes out earlier than pure SONET interface? Christian Kuhtz (Aug 03)
- RE: Q:Why router with ATM interface comes out earlier than pure SONET interface? Sean M. Doran (Aug 03)
- RE: Q:Why router with ATM interface comes out earlier than pure SONET interface? Christian Kuhtz (Aug 03)
- RE: Q:Why router with ATM interface comes out earlier than pure SONET interface? Christian Kuhtz (Aug 03)
- RE: Q:Why router with ATM interface comes out earlier than pure SONET interface? Michael Dillon (Aug 03)
- Re: Q:Why router with ATM interface comes out earlier than pure SONET interface? William Allen Simpson (Aug 05)