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Re: MCI [ATM overhead]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Cavanaugh)
Wed Mar 20 11:20:30 1996

From: johnc@msc.edu (John Cavanaugh)
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 09:59:12 -0600 (CST)
In-Reply-To: <199603200434.AA02894@foxtrot.rahul.net> from "Wolfgang Henke" at Mar 19, 96 08:34:05 pm

> Let's estimate the ATM bandwidth available on an OC-3. ...

You can find a paper that addresses this question at

    http://www.msci.magic.net/docs/magic/overhead.ps or
    ftp:ftp.magic.net/pub/magic/overhead.ps

It covers OC-3c, OC-12c, 100 and 140 Mbps TAXI, and DS3 framing, and
gives the effective bandwidth at each layer.
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