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- From: mark@alsvid.nr.une.edu.au (Mark Garrett Internet: mark@arvak.une.edu.au Phone: +61 66 20 3859)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.cell-relay
- Subject: Re: WDM and ATM
- Message-ID: <Bz83Cs.93z@alsvid.nr.une.edu.au>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 00:14:51 GMT
- References: <1992Nov30.215429.29379@sics.se>
- Organization: University of New England - Northern Rivers (Lismore)
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- From article <1992Nov30.215429.29379@sics.se>, by craig@sics.se (Craig Partridge):
- >>From: peterd@pjd.dev.cdx.mot.com (Peter Desnoyers)
- >> Secondly, people I've
- >> talked to who work with WDM believe that ATM is fundamentally
- >> incompatible with the more promising WDM switching mechanisms, due to
-
- > Taking an even wilder viewpoint, there's paper by Cisneros and Bracket in
- > the October '91 JSAC (pp. 1348-1360) on how to build an ATM switch
- > using a WDM switching fabric.
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- I've come across ATM, but what is WDM? What are the specs for WDM?
- from the jist of the posting I guess WDM is some form of fast packer switching
- with "Wider" packs ???
-
- Mark
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- Mark Garrett Internet: mark@arvak.une.edu.au Phone: +61 66 20 3859
- University of New England, Northern Rivers, Lismore NSW Australia.
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