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Re: IP over SONET considered harmful?
From: Stan Hanks <stan () networkmercenaries com>
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 1998 02:37:10 -0600 (CST)
Like IP over raw fiber. Our friendly WDM vendors would love to get rid of SONET. SS7? What's that? ;)
Sorry, gotta weigh in here... As great as POS is, and as exciting as running IP on optical OC-48 onto WDM gear sounds (no piece of cake, believe me...), there is STILL room for ATM. More than just the much-touted network traffic engineering value, too. Simply put, because of the B-ISDN heritage of ATM, I can actually run synchronous circuits over it (using circuit emulation) and have it work right. Can't get there from here with any IP-over-glass solutions, alas. And as much as an "IP over everything" bigot as I've been for the last 17 years or so, I still run into situations where what I *HAVE* to have is some kind of synchronous circuit. Wish it weren't so, but I can't just tell people "oh, you can't do that"... Stan -- Stanley P. Hanks Vice President, Engineering / FirstPoint Communications (an Enron company) 210 SW Morrison St., Suite 400 / Portland OR 97204 vox (503) 464-8480 / fax (503) 464-2042 / email stan_hanks () firstpoint net
Current thread:
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful?, (continued)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Sean M. Doran (Mar 20)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Kent W. England (Mar 20)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Paul Ferguson (Mar 20)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Scott Brim (Mar 21)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? John G. Scudder (Mar 23)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Paul E. Erkkila (Mar 23)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? avg (Mar 20)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Martin Hannigan (Mar 20)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Paul Ferguson (Mar 20)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Vadim Antonov (Mar 20)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Stan Hanks (Mar 21)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Martin Hannigan (Mar 20)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Vadim Antonov (Mar 21)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Sean M. Doran (Mar 21)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Paul Ferguson (Mar 21)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Sean M. Doran (Mar 21)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Sean M. Doran (Mar 21)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Sean M. Doran (Mar 22)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Sean M. Doran (Mar 22)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Vadim Antonov (Mar 22)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Sean M. Doran (Mar 22)
- Re: IP over SONET considered harmful? Mike Trest (In Japan) (Mar 22)