MCI

Tue Mar 19 16:01:33 UTC 1996

> 
> On Tue, 19 Mar 1996, David Miller wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 18 Mar 1996 Jasper at cloud9.net wrote:
> > What kinds of routers can route at near wire speeds a bunch of ports at 
> > 155Mb ATM?
> 
> None right now. Gigarouter can handle it theoretically, but...
> 

We were able to get pretty close to "ATM wire speed" with our
Gigarouter at OSC. The trick of course is to find equipment that can
actually fill the pipe.

> I'm being picky, but it's a moot question since doing wirespeed OC3c using 
> ATM is impossible in of itself. 
> 

Yup. There's work in progress to put IP directly on SONET, which should save
people with OC-3c backbones from paying the ATM penalty.

...arun
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