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- From: robelr@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Allen Robel)
- Subject: Re: Comment made at Next Generation Networks conference
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- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 04:35:19 GMT
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- In <snq1i9s@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com> vjs@rhyolite.wpd.sgi.com (Vernon Schryver) writes:
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- >hmmph! Let's not chop nits. I was only trying to point out that there
- >exists an interpretation of the quote that is entirely true, and that
-
- Vernon, if I came across sounding like I was chopping nits I didn't
- mean to. If you knew me you'd know that's not my nature.
-
- > -I understand that all current ATM-LAN's use fixed and permanent
- > curcuits among all hosts. That seems unlikely to work in a
- > real LAN of hundreds of TCP/IP hosts, all coming and going.
-
- [other stuff on other "more interesting" ways to compare FDDI and ATM
- deleted]
-
- In my original post, I wasn't trying to deride FDDI (we've got a
- 3 ring FDDI campus backbone that's served us quite well up to now).
- I was only trying to clarify something over which I was genuinely
- confused. Which is, is there an easy way that a network manager
- can determine a point at which FDDI (current implementations
- like ours) starts to become less efficient at delivering
- bandwidth than ATM? Or, if not an easy way, at least some
- general parameters to consider. I really didn't intend to
- start an extended ATM/FDDI benefits/drawbacks kind of discussion
- (but now that this thread has turned out that way that's
- OK too...)
-
- allen
-
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