[9237] in North American Network Operators' Group
ATM (was: Re: Coincidence...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bradley Dunn)
Fri May 9 22:33:57 1997
Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 22:20:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
> Part of the story. US, Japanese and European telco manufacturers had
> different perceptions of 'optimal' atm cell size. Depending upon the mix
> voice/video/data different results were obtained; believe 32 and 64 byte
> were mentioned. The powers that be decided upon a compromise and chose a
> value 'in the middle' causing everyone to redesign their equipment. The
> compromise value was not a power of two. Must have been '89 or
> thereabouts.
Yep...Microprocessors and powers of two don't have any special
relationship. Could the ITU really put politics over technical
requirements? Gee, sounds like a good orginization to help out with
the DNS.
(Yeah, I know, I know. The ITU is "better" now.)
pbd
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Why can't you be a non-conformist like everyone else?
