Cell Relay Archive

["ronald h. davis" <ronaldd@lucent.com>]

Scott Brim wrote:
> 
> Bert, for non-realtime traffic you packed many cells in a frame.  Real time
> traffic would get one or a few cells in a frame.  This would be based on VC
> QoS parameters.  You're wrong about "no QoS at all", by the way, since even
> if you used full-size frames the maximum delay over a switched 10Mb Ethernet
> segment would be about 4 milliseconds.
> 

that makes assumptions about how heavily loaded the ethernet segment
is; and it is a best effort delivery medium.  as such, it is fair to
say that there is no qos.  now, whether you really *need* to have
qos all the way to the desktop is another topic of discussion...

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