[5333] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco's AIP vs HSSI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Hannan)
Tue Oct 15 13:12:03 1996
To: bmanning@isi.edu (Bill Manning)
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 11:54:21 -0500 (CDT)
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
From: alan@mindvision.com (Alan Hannan)
Reply-To: alan@mindvision.com (Alan Hannan)
Hello,
Below.....
> > 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.
Agreed. On a side note, the HSSI card does not terminate in a
V.35, but rather in a HSSI physical connection, similar to a SCSI
physical termination.
I wouldn't ponder the intent of the designers of the HSSI card.
However, I would hazard that a good percentage (3-15) of the HSSI
cards are used for access points to iMUXes....
-alan
