[1073] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Links on the blink - reprise
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Poole)
Fri Nov 17 18:34:06 1995
From: poole@eunet.ch (Simon Poole)
To: smd@sprint.net
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 00:19:16 +0100 (MET)
Cc: cook@cookreport.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <95Nov17.174721-0000_est.20701+23@chops.icp.net> from "Sean Doran" at Nov 17, 95 05:47:07 pm
>
> In order to take advantage of the greater
> port-density(-per-dollar) on FR switches right now, the
> end user has to use FR, which is not always practical
> or desirable.
>
This is actually not true, at least one popular brand
of FR switch has a builtin PPP FRAD (I must say that
debugging the connections is still a medium nightmare).
I agree with most of the other points you make, you do
miss one other potential reason for using FR/ATM technology:
competing in the VPN market with the old players there
(Sprint et al).
Simon
