[81775] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ATM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason Frisvold)
Wed Jun 29 13:19:47 2005
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 13:19:23 -0400
From: Jason Frisvold <xenophage0@gmail.com>
Reply-To: Jason Frisvold <xenophage0@gmail.com>
To: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
Cc: Philip Lavine <source_route@yahoo.com>, nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <42C2D3B2.50100@he.iki.fi>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 6/29/05, Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi> wrote:
> 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.
And being replaced with .... ? GigE? DPT/RPR? MPLS?
ATM is a great technology... Unfortunately, I don't think it was ever
fully utilized.. From what I understand, MPLS takes some of the good
bits and combines it with traditional routing.. But I don't see a lot
of MPLS implementations either...
=20
> Pete
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Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold
XenoPhage0@gmail.com
