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Re: what's the fate of ATM in the face of coming threat?

  • From: Yu Ning <yuning@mindless.com>
  • Date: 21 Jul 1998 03:24:10 GMT

Hi,

>There are just more alternatives to use the SONET/SDH infrastructure. Of
>course there is no reason to  have anything too complicated like ATM
>cell-slicing on a point-to-point SDH link between two routers, but there is
>also no reason to force everything to go through a router, if ATM can do
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But the situation is, today 70% of traffic is of IP, then we can't live
without routers,:-) Even with ATM, its primary means is to connect IP
routers, whether full meshed PVP/PVC, or SVC.
>guaranteed voice QOS over the same SDH cloud and bypass several routers,
>that can almost do it. There will be no single technology. What's going to be
>the
>net for the next generation multimedia cell phones ? They are supposed to have
>2Mbit/s data rate and ip networking, but also normal telephony.
Yes, 3rd negeration mobile com takes ATM, but I don't think they are as
informed as the persons in data com area.
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>VesA
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Yu Ning
ATM R&D Center
BUPT (Beijing U. of Posts&Telecom)
Beijing  (ZIP: 100876,  MBox: 147#),   P. R. China
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