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- From: goldstein@carafe.enet.dec.com (Fred R. Goldstein)
- Subject: Re: new AAL (SSCOP?)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.045929.18654@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Littleton MA USA
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 04:56:31 GMT
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- In article <JH.92Nov10202227@etana.funet.fi>, jh@etana.funet.fi (Juha Heinanen) writes...
- >Fine with me if the signalling folks decide that SSCOP is ok for them,
- >but at least SSCOP should then be renamed as Signalling Specific
- >Connection Oriented Protocol. I haven't found much support in using
- >it below any other connection oriented protocol. For example, if
- >someone wants to implement X.25 over ATM, a better choise is to map
- >LAP B (or whatever the link layer standard for X.25 is) right over
- >ALL5 rather than trying to do X.25 over a new thing, ie. SSCOP.
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- Juha,
-
- At risk of seeming even more impetuous than usual (it's midnight),
- what are they drinking over there in Yurop? LAP-B over AAL5?
-
- That's fine if the data rate is at traditional modem rates (say,
- up to 64 kbps). But LAP-B uses go-back-N recover and a maximum
- window size of 7 frames. If you want to deliver an X.25 VC with
- a 9600 bps throughput, that's fine. But if you want to deliver
- a reliable stream of frames at high speed, you need something
- designed for high speeds. X.25 was designed for 1974's high speeds:
- V.29 was state of the art and 2400 bps was commonly shared by polling
- nodes!
-
- Just as the TCP/IP fanatics are religious about TCP doing it all,
- I sometimes suspect many PTT types of believing that X.25 was dictated
- at the Sermon On the Mount.
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- Fred R. Goldstein goldstein@carafe.tay2.dec.com
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