Exchanges that matter...

Sat Dec 7 22:06:40 UTC 1996

Joe Rhett <joe at Navigist.Com> wrote:

>The issue that everyone seems to be overlooking is network design
>flexibility. Even if ATM has higher overhead, you can only grow a FDDI
>network so much. It really isn't all that hard to max out most FDDI
>switches.

Nah.  The issue is that ATM is a rather expensive way to achieve nothing.

And, if you never heard about it before: FDDI is not what people use
to send data over backbone lines, no matter what trade mags show in their
cute pictures.

--vadim