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        RFC 2098:

        Title:      Toshiba's Router Architecture Extensions for
                    ATM : Overview
        Author:     Y. Katsube, K. Nagami, H. Esaki
        Date:       February 1997
        Mailbox:    katsube@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp,
                    nagami@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp, 
                    hiroshi@isl.rdc.toshiba.co.jp
        Pages:      18
        Characters: 43622
        Updates/Obsoletes: None

        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2098.txt


This memo describes a new internetworking architecture which makes
better use of the property of ATM.  IP datagrams are transferred
along hop-by-hop path via routers, but datagram assembly/disassembly
and IP header processing are not necessarily carried out at
individual routers in the proposed architecture. A concept of "Cell
Switch Router (CSR)" is introduced as a new internetworking
equipment, which has ATM cell switching capabilities in addition to
conventional IP datagram forwarding.  Proposed architecture can
provide applications with high-throughput and low-latency ATM pipes
while retaining current router-based internetworking concept.  It
also provides applications with specific QoS/bandwidth by
cooperating with internetworking level resource reservation protocols
such as RSVP.

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