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Re: MCI [ATM overhead]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Zeeff)
Thu Mar 21 09:32:37 1996

From: jon@branch.com (Jon Zeeff)
To: salo@msc.edu (Tim Salo)
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:04:44 -0500 (EST)
Cc: wolfgang@whnet.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199603210456.WAA24208@uh.msc.edu> from "Tim Salo" at Mar 20, 96 10:56:32 pm


> 	Line Rate		155.520 Mbps
> 	Available to ATM	149.760
> 	Available to AAL	135.632

> The reader can apply their favorite packet size distributions to these
> numbers.
> Having said all that, I am not sure where that leaves us.

That leaves us with the throughput of two DS3 links.  It doesn't seem worth
the effort given how short term a solution it is.


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