Does peering at an ATM MAE require a router that does ABR?

Fri Mar 2 09:25:50 UTC 2001

Right.

However,

> Service types can be mixed on same access port

Is false.

On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Nenad Trifunovic wrote:

> 
> http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0010/bechly.html (slide 4)
> 
> New “Best Effort” service (11/00)
> ABR service with congestion control in core
> MCR = 100 cells/second
> PCR is set to fixed percentage of access port speed
> PCR for DS3 is 100% of port speed (45 Mbps)
> PCR for OC3 is 66% of port speed (99.22 Mbps)
> PCR for OC12 is 50% of port speed (300.67 Mbps)
> Total MCR cannot exceed access port speed
> Service types can be mixed on same access port