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Re: Broadband backbone architecture in the real world? Thanks.

  • From: Brad Reese <reese@alliancedatacom.com>
  • Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 08:33:08 -0700

Hi Yu Ning,

You might try this web page URL:

http://www.boardwatch.com/isp/backbones.html

Best regards,

Brad Reese
The Frame Relay Resource Center
http://www.alliancedatacom.com
Dallas, Texas USA
800-444-5851
214-503-7400

Yu Ning wrote:

> Hi friends,
>
> I'm curretly on a survey of current broadband data network backbone.
> And I 've heard that many ISP, or US national testbed has adopted ATM
> as the infastructure to support upper layer IP service, such as UUnet
> (siad have around 300 ATM switch connected, really?), vBNS, Internet2,
> Sprint ....
>
> But I just can't find detailed discription about their network architecture
> and method/model to integrated IP with ATM, only some network topology
> map and service info can be found in their site (except in vBNS,
> comprehensive archetecture info can be found).
>
> Because there are many academic debate about the shortcoming of ATM to
> support, I just want to see in the real world, why and how the ISP/testbed
> do it. Can any friend give recommend me some URL, or article on this,
> such as of UUnet or Sprint?
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------*
> Yu Ning
> ATM R&D Center
> BUPT (Beijing U. of Posts&Telecom)
> Beijing  (ZIP: 100876,  MBox: 147#),   P. R. China
> Tel:86-10-62283123; Fax:86-10-62283124
> mailto:yuning@mindless.com or  yuning@263.net
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