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Re: What PC 155/622 Mb ATM Card to buy ???

  • From: Spencer Wood <swood@odot.dot.ohio.gov>
  • Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 08:13:11 -0400

Henry Yen wrote:

> In article <35B33DD5.76DD1F71@odot.dot.ohio.gov>,
> Spencer Wood  <swood@odot.dot.ohio.gov> wrote:
> >Tom Lawrence wrote:
> >> > Does anyone have some good experiences with a  PC 155 Mb or 622 Mb
> >> > ATM Card , to work with Cisco LS-1010 and Cat5000.
> >> Why would you want a 622Mb card for a PC?
> >I wouldn't think you could get a PC to actually be able to transfer at
> >622mb........I remember reading a review about 100mb cards that on a
> >Pentium Pro server with a 100mb Full Duplex card, it would take
> >something like 80% of the CPU to run the card flat out (Full Duplex,
> >100mb)...
>
> what operating system/environment was that?  ftp.cdrom.com, running
> freebsd, serves over 9 trillion Bytes/month to over 2 million
> sessions/month; this system runs on a single pentium pro system
> connected to a 100Mb fast ethernet.  considering it is connected
> to 4 scsi controllers controlling 32 disk volumes, i would think
> that this system doesn't run at 80% (it allows up to 3200 simultaneous
> ftp sessions, and is connected to "multiple" DS3 and OC3 circuits
> by virtue of being colocated in CRL's network).
>

Windows NT was the test subject, but I think the same applies to Netware...

You could probably get closer to OC-12 speeds if you were connection a
High-End Sun Server, SGI Server, or Highend IBM Mainframe, but that would
be about it.....

My guess ftp.cdrom.com is actually a collection of servers to allow for
fast connections and let downtime, but I could be wrong..

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