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Re: Cable Modem [really good network design]

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Kuhtz)
Tue Jun 26 15:27:08 2001

Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 15:24:46 -0400
From: Christian Kuhtz <ck@arch.bellsouth.net>
To: Wojtek Zlobicki <wojtekz@idirect.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 03:01:41PM -0400, Wojtek Zlobicki wrote:
> ATM to the desktop never took off, whats wrong with Ethernet over ATM ?
> With devices such as
> IADS, it allows for easy differentiation of traffic.  Now you can cary voice
> and data over the same
> physical link without worry.  
[..]

Ever tried it without that?  I have done quite a bit of less than scientific 
testing of VoIP over a QoS-less infrastructures.  Small VoIP packets seem to 
have little trouble squeezing thru and it works actually pretty well.  That's 
without ATM QoS crap on a broadband connection.

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Christian Kuhtz <ck@arch.bellsouth.net> -wk, <ck@gnu.org> -hm
Sr. Architect, Engineering & Architecture, BellSouth.net, Atlanta, GA, U.S.
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