Cell Relay Archive

[kline@spiffy.cso.uiuc.edu (Charley Kline)]

"Jim Holland" <hollandj@bellsouth.net> writes:

>Just a note...Not all "telephony" works as you describe. In fact, most
>carrier transport networks are engineered so that if an error condition is
>detected (a degraded or failed span) then traffic is rerouted through a
>protection path. If I leased an ATM pipe from LA to NY and a connection
>failed somewhere in Kansas, I'd be very upset if I had to detect and repair
>it. I hope PVCs work better than that!

But this is failover to protection circuits at the SONET level, not
something that anything operating at the ATM level would be aware of.

/cvk