Cell Relay Archive

[jgrant <jgrant@k-net.co.uk>]

At 18:42 14/12/96 -0800, Alan Y. Schaevitz wrote:

>AAL2 has not been touched and probably won't be, either.  There is work in
>progress for a new AAL type, currently called AAL-CU (for Cell Unit, I
>believe) that is designed for low speed, time sensitive traffic such as
>compressed voice/video as well as non-compressed voice and that allows
>multiple connections to share the same ATM cell payload (to avoid the
>wasted padding required when there is only one user's traffic in a payload
>and that user doesn't want the delay inherent in waiting to fill up a
>payload).  It may eventually be called AAL6 rather than AAL2.

Is it the same as the AAL6 being defined for cellular radio?


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