[2240] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SONET Interconnect (was RE: MCI)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Fri Mar 29 01:41:58 1996
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 01:27:43 -0500
To: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 09:48 PM 3/28/96 -0800, Paul A Vixie wrote:
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>Where's Padlipski when we need him?
>
Running IP datagrams across barbed-wire, methinks. ;-)
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>What ATM has is an excellent set of buzzwords and a lot of vendor support.
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>What IP has is an actual market with real end-to-end products and users.
>
Therein lies the thrust, Paul. Folks need to devise a more
'real-world' concept of acceptable long-haul data transport services.
- paul