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voice over atm [was: Re: ppp over atm...why?]

  • From: "ronald h. davis" <ronaldd@lucent.com>
  • Date: Thu, 22 Oct 1998 15:38:05 -0500

James Carlson wrote:
> 
> albert.e.manfredi@boeing.com writes:
>
> > (If you really want to get twisted, you can also use AAL5 exclusively, for
> > voice CBR channels and data channels, as far as that goes.)
> 
> Not at all twisted.  Frankly, I think that using AAL-1 for voice is
> pretty twisted.  Each VC represents persistent state through the core
> of the network.  Doing that for a high bandwidth multiplexed
> connection (say, a trunk between Class 5 switches) makes sense.  Doing
> it for each person gabbing to another does not.
> 

there is, of course, another option and that is to use aal-2 with
silence suppression.

as you suggested, aal-1 for voice makes more sense than aal-5 for voice
because aal-1 has less overhead.  in fact, voice over atm is more
efficient than voice over ip even when using aal-5.

voice really is the killer app for atm because it carries voice better
than ip does...the same doesn't hold true for data.

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