Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 20:44:44 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.magicnet.net> To: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ATM WAN interface Message-ID: <199901020144.UAA20443@bilver.magicnet.net> In-Reply-To: <199901012349.SAA26859@mail.gwi.net> from Fletcher E Kittredge at "Jan 1, 99 06:48:59 pm"
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Fletcher E Kittredge recently said: > The point would be that with IP over ATM, you pay for 155mb/sec, > and you really get about 110mb/sec. Pick any speed, you still only > get 70% of the listed bandwidth. So if you buy a ~1.5mb/sec T1, > you are only going to get a megabit after paying the cell tax, and > packet shredding. > Like X.25, ATM is a dead technlogy pushed only by the phone > companies. For a dead technology it's surely getting a lot of attention for video over ip. I saw some pretty amazing ATM switching dedicated to high speed real-time digital video broadcast at Interop. Destination was indentical to the source DVDs. The companies I spoke to believed that ATM was the best for that. Good decode boards are under $10K and encoders are under $20K in other instances. These definately weren't phone companies pushing it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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