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- From: grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (Tom Gray)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.cell-relay
- Subject: Re: Curious attitude ...
- Message-ID: <12467@janice>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 20:39:48 GMT
- References: <ntlg9qc@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com> <12445@ntdd-1> <l7g4nrINNfjd@skat.usc.edu>
- Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.
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- In article <l7g4nrINNfjd@skat.usc.edu> tli@skat.usc.edu (Tony Li) writes:
- >
- >
- > The problem with these LAN protocols
- > is not in the access but in the internetworking applications.
- > It is here that ATM is now replacing the existing networks.
- > Frame Relay has seen widespread acceptance and Frame Relay
- > is the first example of ATM protocols.
- >
- >How do LAN protocols lack internetworking applications? And how does
- >ATM address this issue? Answer: it doesn't. It provides another link
- >layer for data and adds other services. Frame Relay is an ATM
- >protocol? What is SMDS? X.25?
- >
-
- FRame relay is a connection oriented layr 1.5 protocol. It is a
- fast packet technology that uses the ideas of ATM.
- The only essential difference between frame relay and
- cell relay is that one uses variable length packets
- and the other uses constant length. The essence of ATM
- is the lack of sequencing, error correction etc.
- built into these edge to edge protocols.
-
- How does ATM address the internetworking problem? As stated above
- it provides the opportunity to produce a network management model
- which can make valid predictions about performance.
-
- How do LAN protocols lack internetworking applications? They
- don't. There are a great many of them. So many that that
- it is impossible to create a network model that can
- provide valid predictions.
-
- The problem here seems to be one of terminology. There is
- confusion because the B-ISDN groups have termed their cell
- relay level the ATM level. ATM was concieved in '70's.
- Cell relay is a refinement which improves on the
- edge to edge ideas of ATM but is not an original
- component.
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- i.sinature
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