[5328] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco's AIP vs HSSI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Tue Oct 15 11:10:45 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: bmanning@isi.edu (Bill Manning)
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 10:39:24 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: salo@msc.edu, kri@bellcore.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610151424.AA28403@zephyr.isi.edu> from "Bill Manning" at Oct 15, 96 07:24:58 am
> > This is also my understanding. I thought I saw some work being done
> > on an enhanced DXI specification, (the interface between the router and
> > the ATM DSU), but I think that, for the most part, not much work is
> > being done with ATM DSU solutions today. ATM DSUs were largely
> > developed as a quick-to-market solution for adding ATM functionality
> > to routers, without the need for new router boards. Their time has passed.
> >
> > -tjs
>
> I don't think that HSSI was designed as a point solution
> until ATM came along. Couching your answers in the context
> of an ATM solution is presumption, or so it appears to me.
>
> --
> --bill
Are you talking about point-to-point ATM or just point-to-point applications
in general?
My wild-assed guess would be that about 45% of HSSI boards are running
point-to-point HDLC or PPP and 45% are running Frame, with the rest SMDS
and ATM and god knows what else.
Avi
