[32922] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Where are ATM NAPs going?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Charlap)
Mon Dec 18 19:28:55 2000
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Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 19:27:05 -0500
From: David Charlap <david.charlap@marconi.com>
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Leo Bicknell wrote:
>
> Regardless of how good the technologies are, the router vendors
> have killed ATM as a future nap technology. To use the Cisco example,
> ATM tops out an OC-12 ...
>
> If there were OC-48 or OC-192 ATM coming, and/or switches with the
> density to make that work it would have a future, but alas, that seems
> to not be in any vendors road map.
My company (Marconi) makes such a switch:
http://www.marconi.com/html/solutions/asx4000.htm
Non-blocking OC-48c ATM interfaces have been shipping for some time now.
-- David
