[2222] in North American Network Operators' Group
ATM overhead [WAS: Re: UUNET stops peering at MAE-West]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Sun Mar 24 23:49:15 1996
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 23:41:43 -0500
To: "Kent W. England" <kwe@6SigmaNets.com>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Kent,
Have you done any statistical gathering on the overhead required to route
IP traffic in the Pac Bell ATM NAP? I'd be interested in seeing this, for
certain. :-)
- paul
At 05:50 PM 3/24/96 -0800, Kent W. England wrote:
>
>Give it a try. Pacific Bell has upgraded the Bay Area NAP to Stratacom BPX
>ATM switches and the new PacBell LA NAP will also be a BPX switch. These
>switches have sufficient buffer size to manage OC-3 connections.
>
>Check out our NAP stats page http://www.PacBell.COM/Products/NAP/Stats/ to
>see how much aggregate traffic is already flowing through the Bay Area NAP.
>Still some headroom left and no cell loss!
>
>--Kent
>
