[6447] in North American Network Operators' Group
Building exchanges that matter ..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Rhett)
Sat Dec 7 16:15:48 1996
To: avg@pluris.com (Vadim Antonov)
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 13:07:55 -0800 (PST)
From: "Joe Rhett" <joe@Navigist.Com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199612052256.OAA01411@quest.pluris.com> from "Vadim Antonov" at Dec 5, 96 02:56:00 pm
> >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.
In the smaller networks, GigabitE may well turn out cheaper than ATM,
but Ethernet will never have the design flexibility ATM does.
...and any technology which experiences performance problems at 40%
utilization will is questionable at best...
