[5396] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet II is coming...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Lothberg)
Thu Oct 17 17:49:07 1996
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 96 13:32:52 MET DST
From: Peter Lothberg <roll@Stupi.SE>
To: fkittred@biddeford.com
Cc: salo@msc.edu (Tim Salo), fkittred@biddeford.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Mon, 14 Oct 1996 10:36:37 -0400
> > data, after SONET, ATM, IP and TCP overheads.
> >
> > Perhaps, I missed your point...
>
> Explicit: 6meg is not very fast for an uplink speed for a whole
> ISP.
> Implicit: There seems to be a lot of: "It's ATM so it must be
> fast" going around. This conclusion does not follow.
>
> regards,
> fletcher
To move IP packets, it will always be faster without ATM than with ATM
at any given linerate. The rest is pricebstructure, tarrifs, politics
and marketing.
--Peter
