Re: Where are ATM NAPs going?

[John Fraizer <nanog () EnterZone Net>]

So, what you're saying is that I should tell all the folks that want to
peer via ATM at CMH-IX (which supports 10/100/GE at this time) that they
should get bent or get GigE, right?

THANK YOU!


John Fraizer
EnterZone, Inc
CMH-IX NAP

On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Leo Bicknell wrote:

>       Regardless of how good the technologies are, the router vendors
> have killed ATM as a future nap technology.  To use the Cisco example,
> ATM tops out an OC-12, and has less port density than anything else at
> that speed (eg 3xGBE in the same slot).  While cute, this is useless
> for an exchange of the future, where Gigabit will be the preferred connection
> in the sort term, and 10GigE will be the long term solution.
>
>       Yesterday's 1 meg public peer on 100meg FE is turning into today's
> 10 meg public peer on 100Meg FE/622Mbps ATM, which is really a step backwards.
> They need to be on Gigabit soon, as tomorrow they will be the 100meg public
> peer, and you'll want to upgrade to 10GigE interfaces.
>
>       If there were OC-48 or OC-192 ATM coming, and/or switches with the
> density to make that work it would have a future, but alas, that seems to
> not be in any vendors road map.
>
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