Re: Very fast IP, no ATM...

[Guy T Almes <]

Peter,
  Congratulations.  This pleases me greatly.
  The success of the January 1994 trans-pacific T3 link from California
to Hawaii by ANS was, in part, also due to taking advantage of direct
IP over T3 frames.
        -- Guy
p.s.: have you any measures of IP-level throughput over this link?


At 03:43 AM 9/23/96 DST, Peter Lothberg wrote:
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>On Monday 23 September 1996 00:15Z..
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>Was the worlds first transatlantic 155Mbit native IP service brought into
>operation by Sprint/USA and Tele2/Sweden.
>
>The circiut wich is part of Sprintlink and ICMnet runs between the 
>NY-Nap in Pennsauken, NJ, USA and Tele2 in Sweden and uses cisco 
>packet-over-sonet/sdh technology. (Native IP over SDH/VC4)
>
>In 1995 the same team from Sprint and Tele2 brought up the worlds first 
>transatlantic E3 service between the same endpoints.
>
>For more information;
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>Sprint:  Tricia Schibler, +1 703 904 2042, <tricia.schibler@localhost
>Tele2:   Olle Wallner, +46 8 5626 4058, wallner@localhost
>
>--Peter
>