ATM overhead [WAS: Re: UUNET stops peering at MAE-West]

Mon Mar 25 04:41:43 UTC 1996

Kent,

Have you done any statistical gathering on the overhead required to route
IP traffic in the Pac Bell ATM NAP? I'd be interested in seeing this, for
certain.  :-)

- paul

At 05:50 PM 3/24/96 -0800, Kent W. England wrote:

>
>Give it a try. Pacific Bell has upgraded the Bay Area NAP to Stratacom BPX
>ATM switches and the new PacBell LA NAP will also be a BPX switch. These
>switches have sufficient buffer size to manage OC-3 connections.
>
>Check out our NAP stats page http://www.PacBell.COM/Products/NAP/Stats/ to
>see how much aggregate traffic is already flowing through the Bay Area NAP.
>Still some headroom left and no cell loss!
>
>--Kent
>