[2184] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MCI [ATM overhead]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shikhar Bajaj)
Thu Mar 21 09:37:21 1996
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 09:26:38 -0500
From: bajaj@bellcore.com (Shikhar Bajaj)
To: avg@postman.ncube.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> I.e. a dual clearline DS-3 actually carries as much user data as OC-3c ATM.
> Which, incidentally, was why SprintLink backbone design is easily expandable
> to dual links (that includes carefully considering implications for routing).
> Sean presented that design on NANOG a year ago, BTW. Funny thing, the design
> is expandable beyond that, too, so OC-3 ATM is already obsolete.
>
> --vadim
>
If OC-3 is obsolete, what does that make DS-1s and DS-3s?
Shikhar
