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Re: CBR? Required to reserve BW even if no CBR traffic?

  • From: "Scott Brunstrom" <sbrunstr@fore.com>
  • Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 10:57:36 -0400


Richard Brandt wrote in message <6n78de$lrf@bgtnsc03.worldnet.att.net>...
>I've been trying to research if a vendor is ATM Forum compliant (or has a
>good design).  They say that any unused CBR traffic is available for
>anybody else's use.

If you have a CBR contract for 30 Mbps, and the source is only using 15Mbps,
then this 15Mbps can be used for other connections.

>Looking at TM4.0, I only see that if a switch
>accepts a CBR connection then it must provide what was contracted for.
>I've also heard how inefficient CBR is because the bandwidth goes to
>waste.

This is implementation dependant, for example if you're emulating a DS0
voice circuit, and the circuit is "on-hook" then there is no need to send
any data on this CBR circuit.  Freeing the bandwidth for other use.

 If a vendor has CBR in the highest queue, then couldn't CBR
>traffic that was ramping up just start using that queue and still get his
>QoS satisfied?
>
>Thanks.
>--
>Richard L. Brandt - Richard@Brandt.net
>"The faster the network, the quicker it goes down."