[81774] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ATM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Wed Jun 29 13:00:10 2005
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 20:00:34 +0300
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: Philip Lavine <source_route@yahoo.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050629150627.8671.qmail@web30706.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Philip Lavine wrote:
>I plan to design a hub and spoke WAN using ATM. The
>data traversing the WAN is US equities market data.
>Market data can be in two flavors multicast and TCP
>client/server. Another facet of market data is it is
>bursty in nature and is very sensitive to packet loss
>and latency (like voice). What type of ATM AAL format
>would be best for this topology? Is there any other
>concerns I should be aware of.
>
>
Maybe the small fact that ATM is fading away and building new networks
with technology going away is going to explode your operational cost in
a few years time. Business grade IP networks will provide you with equal
if not better performance than a "dedicated" ATM WAN.
(in addition to the fact that you probably posted your question in the
wrong forum)
Pete
