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Re: An old topic, can CBR connection be overbooked?

  • From: mukul@trillium.com (Mukul Katiyar)
  • Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 22:53:45 -0800

> 
> 
> 
> Hi friends,
> 
> This is really an old topic, but i'm a little slow and can't catch up,:-)
> 
> Can we over-subscribe CBR connection within a physical link? Heard some
> expert (from C&W) last night, that at the idle time when upper layer app
> don't generate data, so no cell will be send even in CBR conenction, then
> the idle time in the cell level will be used by other connection, such as
> UBR, ABR.

 Only ABR can use the access bandwidth on the link which has been
 contracted but not used. This property comes from the 
 very nature of this service category where the current cell
 rate is adjusted looking at the network, depending on traffic conditions and
 available bandwidth. So this property implies that those switches supporting
 ABR capability shall support it.
 
 -mukul
 

>  Is this a general practice by all the switch? Or it's only an
> advantage of certain switch ( more capabile and efficient switch)?
> 
> Thanks definitely for your answer, or pointer to a previous discussion
> is also welcome. Thanks.
> 
> 
> Yu Ning.
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> Yu Ning
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> BUPT (Beijing U. of Posts&Telecom)
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> Ideas ONLY reflect my own views,:-)
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