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- From: grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (Tom Gray)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.cell-relay
- Subject: How does one compare tansport systems ? was Re: Computers dont like ATM?
- Message-ID: <13566@grayt>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 13:52:43 GMT
- References: <1992Nov18.025754.14749@trl.oz.au> <22909@venera.isi.edu>
- Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.
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- In article <22909@venera.isi.edu> finn@dalek.isi.edu (Greg Finn) writes:
- >
- > ATM is politically very popular. Arguments that ATM brings
- >about end-to-end compatibility do not impress me. Most LAN traffic
- >stays within the LAN. Forcing LANs to comply with WAN data-link
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- Traffic goes application to application ie user to user ie end to end.
- ATM addresses the building of user applications which are beyond the
- traditional data applications now running on LAN's.
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- It does this while retaining the capability of running the traditional data
- applications. Indeed it does this while reducing the compleity of
- a local network making it more manageable and scaleable.
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- Now questions about the suitability of transport systems must be based on their
- suitability for the applications. ATM has been designed for integrated
- applications. In particular ATM has been designed to carry both delay sensitive
- and high speed services.
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- Now what characteristics should be used for the selection of transport systems
- to be used in the next decade. These characteristics must of necessity come
- from an analysis of the applications.
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- i.sinature
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