[6467] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Building exchanges that matter ..
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (alex@relcom.eu.net)
Mon Dec 9 09:06:53 1996
From: alex@relcom.eu.net
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 96 16:41:05 +0300
To: joe@Navigist.Com, rs@www.nvcdl.org
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, smd@cesium.clock.org
>
> From: "Joe Rhett" <joe@Navigist.Com>
>
> ATM -> Flat/Star/Web/whatever. You can create both bandwidth and
> redundancy without routing.
>
> I am consistently amazed at the number of people who think that
> defining an additional diversely-routed PVC through a single physical
> ATM connection creates "redundancy". Clearly these folks have never
> had a card go south on them.
The best (and _the only_) way to add real redundancy to ATM-LANE network
is to use other (100baseTX usially) protocol for it, as (for example)
CISCO do in their projects they like to present.
-:) They defend network against ATM's bugs.
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