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Re: NAP/ISP Saturation WAS: Re: Exchanges that matter...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul A Vixie)
Fri Dec 20 12:53:58 1996

To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 20 Dec 1996 03:57:47 PST."
             <199612201157.DAA08109@core.atmnet.net> 
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 09:44:37 -0800
From: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>

The GIGAswitch has theoretical difficulties.  Head of line blocking and so
on.  But the exchanges that use GIGAswitches aren't having measurable
problems which are traceable to the GIGAswitches.  The "O" in NANOG is for
"operations" and in the field of operations, anything that works gets used.

There is a conclusion to be drawn from this regarding ATM.

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