[6449] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Exchanges that matter...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Sat Dec 7 17:11:46 1996
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 14:06:40 -0800
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@pluris.com>
To: joe@Navigist.Com, nanog@merit.edu
Joe Rhett <joe@Navigist.Com> wrote:
>The issue that everyone seems to be overlooking is network design
>flexibility. Even if ATM has higher overhead, you can only grow a FDDI
>network so much. It really isn't all that hard to max out most FDDI
>switches.
Nah. The issue is that ATM is a rather expensive way to achieve nothing.
And, if you never heard about it before: FDDI is not what people use
to send data over backbone lines, no matter what trade mags show in their
cute pictures.
--vadim
