Re: Very fast IP, no ATM...

[Guy T Almes <]

Juha,
  Let me not speculate about all the various scenarios where the strengths
and weaknesses of IP over ATM vs IP over SONET might vary.
  I addressed only the trans-oceanic very high delay-bandwidth product links,
where I think the case is particularly strong.
        -- Guy

At 11:11 AM 9/24/96 +0300, Juha Heinanen wrote:
>when we talk about a link between two routers that will be saturated
>immediately, atm doesn't give advantage over sonet.  the situation
>becomes different, when one wants to build a mesh network where the
>traffic load betweeen the various nodes of the mesh varies and the
>physical interface speed is fast enough to handle traffic between
>several nodes simultaneously.
>
>-- juha
>