Yeah Joe's right. Given the fact that there is no way of sar-ing over oc48, most major players are now moving to POS. Even if you don't need oc48 or oc192 now, it makes little sense to embrace ATM for a new network and then have to throw it in the bin next year anyway. Also the higher the speed the more the celltax costs you. Eg if you pay for an oc12 on southern cross then you loose the equiv of an oc3 in overhead. Thats a heckload of cash. Loosing an oc12 on an oc48 link is even worse. Long live wirerate oc192. Dean On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 09:49:20AM -0500, Joe Abley wrote:
On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 02:17:09PM +1100, Scott, Arron wrote:
Now we just need a Telco or three in NZ to support ATM at STM-4 rates.
Is anybody really waiting for that? If you're shifting an STM-4s worth of data around, it's probably a stream of packets, and it's probably IP, and you probably want to use POS. You probably don't want the additional complexity, cost, operational overhead, cell tax and SAR latency that using ATM would involve.
Also, ATM is the work of Satan, which should be mentioned, for the record.
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