[6428] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Exchanges that matter...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Thu Dec 5 18:10:00 1996
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 14:56:00 -0800
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
To: paul@vix.com, salo@msc.edu
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
salo@msc.edu (Tim Salo) wrote:
> From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
> [...]
> ... and they aren't subject to ATM's cell tax ...
>I am surprised, (well, maybe not), that you aren't concerned about
>the excessive overhead present in FDDI networks...
FDDI is not a WAN technology. Losing 20% of bandwidth of a 10 ft
piece of fiber is one thing. Losing 20% of bandwidth of a
$3M/yr circuit is quite different.
ATM as a LAN is probably ok, if it can compete with Gb Ethernet
price/performance-wise.
--vadim
