Cell Relay Archive

[andymac@globalnet.co.uk (MAC)]

North American Gateway are offering a Transatlantic ABR service from
Toronto/New York and London.  I believe this is being extended to
Amsterdam and Farankfurt during the summer.  Its designed for ISPs but
I'm sure they'd entertain corporate customers as well.

Prices seem very competitive.

Have a look at www.egw.co.uk in the Global network services area.

Andy


albert.e.manfredi@boeing.com wrote:

>In article <7k71qm$q51$1@mango.singnet.com.sg>,
>  "Chan Kok Kee" <ckokkee@singnet.com.sg> wrote:
>> As far as I know there is no public service provider in the world
>that is
>> selling ABR service. It is difficult to implement, provision, manage
>and
>> most important bill. What REAL purpose does it serve when there is
>VBR-NRT
>> and UBR?
>
>ABR is different from VBR or UBR, however, in important ways. ABR
>allows you to make good use of statistical multiplexing, where VBR
>really does not, but at the same time, ABR adjusts to available
>bandwidth by sending feedback to the source, and also provides for a
>minimum guaranteed bandwidth, neither of which you get with UBR.
>
>Like other features designed into ATM, it is possible that ABR will be
>forgotten from sheer lack of interest. But it does give some useful
>possibilities. For example, if ABR is used on links which support VBR,
>it could allow applications set up for ABR to fill up that ATM link
>nicely, while avoiding the kind of haphazard service UBR would give
>you. I suspect that as ATM links become heavily loaded, UBR becomes
>less and less desirable. But ABR would still work well.
>
>--
>Bert
>manfredi@arl.bna.boeing.com
>
>
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