[5330] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco's AIP vs HSSI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Avi Freedman)
Tue Oct 15 11:19:47 1996
From: Avi Freedman <freedman@netaxs.com>
To: bmanning@isi.edu (Bill Manning)
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 10:58:13 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: freedman@netaxs.com, bmanning@isi.edu, salo@msc.edu, kri@bellcore.com,
nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610151455.AA29287@zephyr.isi.edu> from "Bill Manning" at Oct 15, 96 07:55:50 am
> The orginal question can be paraphrased as; "which
> board is better" (see the subject line).
> Tim S. couched his replies in the form of an ATM only
> solution. I feel that the HSSI board was not designed
> as such. Your comments seem to back up my assertions.
> I would claim that for raw throughput, and assuming
> the DS3 daughtercard for the AIP, that the HSSI board
> delivers more useful bits at the expense of an outboard
> CSU. This is based on my feeling that HDLC is more efficent
> than ATM signaling/framing.
Agreed...
But it's not a feeling, it's a fact :)
> --bill
Avi
