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Re: AAL 5, in hardware??

  • From: Martin Winter <Nospam.Martin.Winter@oen.siemens.de>
  • Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 07:46:52 +0100

Jonas Perleryd wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Does anyone know if AAL5 is implemented in hardware or in software? If it's
> implemented in hardware, how is the situation, where more than one process
> wants to use the AAL 5 at the same time, handled?

AAL5 is almost always implemented in hardware. Most NICs can handle a
number (from 64 to some thousands) of transmit and receive channels
concurrently. They can send and receive multiple data buffers in
parallel and do AAL5 on each of them.

-- 
Martin Winter

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