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smds and aal 3/4 [was: SMDS & ATM]

  • From: "ronald h. davis" <ronaldd@lucent.com>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 17:33:13 -0600

mjy wrote:
> 
> Someone told me that SMDS is a 'great' WAN transport as the cells can
> carry ATM traffic w/o segmentation, as SMDS cells are 53 bytes and so
> are ATM's.
> However, doesn't SMDS have 44 byte data payload whereas ATM has 48 ?
> Seems like we would segment in one direction at least...
> 

aal 3/4 also has a 44 octet payload because there are 4 octets of
aal 3/4 overhead in the 48 octet atm layer pdu.

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