Re: T1 Circuit actual throughput 1290Kbp

[James Carlson <carlson () ironbridgenetworks com>]

> > (!)  The cell tax is about 10% -- the SAR expands user data from 48
> > bytes to 53 bytes, plus an additional amount of overhead for internal
> > fragmentation on the final cell (AAL-5), plus overhead for whatever
> > encapsulation mode is being used.
>
> The cell tax is actually about 20%, based on the traces of the backbone IP
> traffic. Reason for this is the additional overhead imposed of partially =
> filled cells.

That's what I meant about internal fragmentation.  Depending on frame
size, it can be a non-trivial part of the overhead.  If we assume
null-VC encapsulation and 256 byte packets, this is 1 cell partially
filled (20 bytes average ((48-8)/2)) for every 5 full cells, or an
additional 9.7% overhead.  (Which matches up nicely with your
measurements.  ;-))

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