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- From: grayt@Software.Mitel.COM (Tom Gray)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.cell-relay
- Subject: Re: Is ATM well suited to LANs?
- Message-ID: <13605@grayt>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 17:44:15 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.104113.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi> <22926@venera.isi.edu>
- Organization: Mitel. Kanata (Ontario). Canada.
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- In article <22926@venera.isi.edu> finn@dalek.isi.edu (Greg Finn) writes:
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- > Video telephony over long distance will be very costly by
- >comparison with intra-LAN video traffic. It is likely that it will be
- >heavily compressed. Why restrict users on the LAN to MPEG with its
- >artifacts if they have the capability to handle uncompressed data? If
- >you call your colleague down the hall or on the next floor, why not
- >use high resolution video?
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- Indeed if the application on the WAN is to allow the user to edit
- the video stream, why restrict it to MPEG when JPEG is much more
- suitable. Perhaps this will show you why ATM is designed for end to end
- applications and negotiations of protocols.
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