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Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore?
From: Bill Woodcock <woody () zocalo net>
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 13:13:04 -0700 (PDT)
> Personally, I don't believe that ATM is 'bad' for > shared-fabric exchange point. I mean, it works, and solves several > problems quite easy: a) it's easily distributed via SONET services to > folks who are not next to the ATM switch, b) it makes interconnection > between networks safer (ie, not dealing with broadcast issues on a > ethernet nap), c) virtual PI connections are easily accomplished, d) there > are varying degrees of interconnection speed (agreeably, less important), All of the above are true of frame relay as well, which has the additional benefit of not being funamentally incompatible with data networking. :-) > e) it allows for things other than IP, or packet-based traffic to be > exchanged (a la Verizons' video-portal service) (agreeably, again, less > important). Ah, yes, I agree with this entirely. If you're building a voice exchange, rather than a data exchange, ATM is excellent technology. I believe Vinnie can give us some personal experience on this front. -Bill
Current thread:
- Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? William B. Norton (Aug 07)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? William B. Norton (Aug 08)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Alex Rubenstein (Aug 08)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Bill Woodcock (Aug 09)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Steve Feldman (Aug 09)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? William B. Norton (Aug 30)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Petri Helenius (Aug 31)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Alex Rubenstein (Aug 08)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? William B. Norton (Aug 08)
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- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? michael . dillon (Aug 08)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Alex Rubenstein (Aug 08)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Mikael Abrahamsson (Aug 08)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? bmanning (Aug 08)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Alex Rubenstein (Aug 08)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Nenad Trifunovic (Aug 09)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? William B. Norton (Aug 09)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? Mike Leber (Aug 09)
- Re: Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore? William B. Norton (Aug 09)