Re: Very fast IP, no ATM...

[Jon Crowcroft <]

 >You are missing the point, to make voice work, you have to move bits
 >between sender and receiver, and, it does not really matter how you do
 >it.
 
 >More interesting is to se when you can no longer make a normal
 >phone-call, becouse all the resources in the voice switch is consumed
 >by people accessing the Internet with Modems or ISDN.

 >What will they do, improve the voice network  (very expensive) or give
 >people real IP services? Once they given people real IP services,
 >well, voice is just an application.


absolutely - voice (and hi hi audio) work very nicely on our 155 Mbps
IP over ATM net - they could ONLY work BETTER if we tok the ATM
out....in fact, the utilisation on our IP on 34Mbps SMDS is far
better...and even there, i think we could sacrifice the SMDS if it
wasn't so stable...

 jon