Cell Relay Archive

[David M Drury <dmd@fore.com>]

Picturetel's Livelan 3.1 video conference implementation,
developed in conjunction with FORE implements this option
We recently announced a partnership with Intel  to implement
native ATM support on their Teamstation System and their
Proshare Video System 500. Several other vendors, 
have announced their intention
to support native ATM modes of working too

Why is it important ?

The application simply runs better over ATM, mainly because
the latency is very very low, whereas the latency on an all
ethernet implementation tends to be much much worse, simply
because of the variability of delay.

The other major use is for network based CTI - where voice
is transfered using AAL1 connections to produce low latency
above toll quality voice connections in the network

As Windows 98 and Windows 2000 (nee NT 5.0) are deployed with
native support for QoS we believe we will see much much more
use of the ATM QoS API

We at FORE have well over 100 partners now developing versions
of their applications that will take advantage of QoS as the
desk top OS's support this.

David Drury
FORE Systems
www.fore.com

At 03:46 AM 11/26/98 GMT, N-Duc Le wrote:
>Hi All,
>  This question might sound trivial to a lot of people. But
>  I am just wondering if anyone is aware of any application
>  (commercial, freeware, shareware, research, etc...)
>  that can take advantage QoS provided in the ATM. By taking
>  advantage, I mean how application can specify the type of QoS
>  it wants from ATM card (ATM network, etc....). Or any
>  implementation of UNI out there?
>
>  Please let me know if you have any comments, ideas or
>  questions. Thanks for your time and help.
>Regards
>Le
>
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