Do ATM-based Exchange Points make sense anymore?

Thu Aug 8 16:37:30 UTC 2002

I have no first-hand experience SRP/DPT.

However, the following questions exist?

Does it scale well to 10's, or perhaps hundreds of nodes?

And, is there the possibility of one member hurting the entire ring?

On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, michael.dillon at radianz.com wrote:

>
> Given that your analysis could be used to make decisions about exchange
> point architecture, I wonder if you would consider adding RPR IEEE 802.17
> into the mix?
> While I don't know of anyone using RPR in an exchange point, there
> certainly are products on the market and not just Cisco's SRP/DPT. Within
> Ebone we were using SRP/DPT rings quite successfully in our PoP
> architecture, i.e. it does work in the real world. I know that the
> marketing side of RPR is promoting it as a metro area solution, but it
> works just as well in a PoP. Given that you are comparing a PoP oriented
> technology (Ethernet) with a metro area technology (ATM), I think it makes
> sense to take a serious look at a technology that covers both.
>
> --Michael Dillon
>

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