Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:50:03 -0500 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Robin Melville <robmel@nadt.org.uk> Cc: isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ATM Frame Relay vs P2P? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970213135001.00cb7e20@etinc.com>
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At 02:24 PM 2/13/97 GMT, you wrote: >Does anyone have any thoughts/experience of the benefits or otherwise of >hooking to backbone via ATM Frame Relay as opposed to Point to Point? > >Any contributions greatly received. Are you talking about ATM or Frame Relay or both? You dont want ATM on a relatively slow WAN link...theres way too much overhead (small packets.....)...Some frame relay nets use ATM as their backbone (on high speed T3 links)... Frame is advantageous when it saves you hops....ie a hop through a frame switch is faster than a hop through a router. Since frame is less distance-sensitive, you can get closer to "the net" with frame, often in 1 hop rather than through a busy POP somewhere. Dennis
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