[2156] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MCI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gordon Cook)
Tue Mar 19 11:12:12 1996
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 11:02:19 -0500 (EST)
From: Gordon Cook <gcook@tigger.jvnc.net>
Reply-To: cook@cookreport.com
To: Dorian Kim <dorian@cic.net>
Cc: David Miller <david@dirigo.mint.net>, Jasper@cloud9.net,
inet-access@earth.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.91.960319100501.25407Z-100000@nic.hq.cic.net>
I am told that Cisco has an OC-3 interface to its 75XX series of
routers. If so why would you need a cluster of routers around each ATM
switch?
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On Tue, 19 Mar 1996, Dorian Kim wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Mar 1996, David Miller wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 18 Mar 1996 Jasper@cloud9.net wrote:
> > What kinds of routers can route at near wire speeds a bunch of ports at
> > 155Mb ATM?
>
> None right now. Gigarouter can handle it theoretically, but...
>
> I'm being picky, but it's a moot question since doing wirespeed OC3c using
> ATM is impossible in of itself. Hell, mapping of SONET framings to ATM
> cells take off about 6 mbps right there.
>
> Anyway, until then you have a router that can do this, there always are
> ATM switches + cluster of routers.
>
> -dorian
>
