From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Jan 1 17:32:59 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA20220 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 17:32:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from magicnet.magicnet.net (magicnet.magicnet.net [204.96.116.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA20215 for ; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 17:32:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bill@bilver.magicnet.net) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by magicnet.magicnet.net (8.8.6/8.8.8) with UUCP id UAA13650 for isp@freebsd.org; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 20:31:38 -0500 (EST) Received: (from bill@localhost) by bilver.magicnet.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id UAA20443 for isp@freebsd.org; Fri, 1 Jan 1999 20:44:44 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Vermillion Message-Id: <199901020144.UAA20443@bilver.magicnet.net> Subject: Re: ATM WAN interface In-Reply-To: <199901012349.SAA26859@mail.gwi.net> from Fletcher E Kittredge at "Jan 1, 99 06:48:59 pm" To: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 20:44:44 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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