[2157] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MCI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arun Welch)
Tue Mar 19 11:12:36 1996
From: Arun Welch <awelch@awelch.inhouse.compuserve.com>
To: dorian@cic.net (Dorian Kim)
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 1996 11:01:33 -0500 (EST)
Cc: 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> from "Dorian Kim" at Mar 19, 96 10:09:01 am
>
> 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...
>
We were able to get pretty close to "ATM wire speed" with our
Gigarouter at OSC. The trick of course is to find equipment that can
actually fill the pipe.
> I'm being picky, but it's a moot question since doing wirespeed OC3c using
> ATM is impossible in of itself.
>
Yup. There's work in progress to put IP directly on SONET, which should save
people with OC-3c backbones from paying the ATM penalty.
...arun
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