The IP Over NBMA (ION) Archive

[salo@msc.edu (Tim Salo)]

> Date: Mon, 28 Apr 1997 12:19:28 -0700
> From: Tracy Mallory <tracy@epigram.com>
> To: "John T. Burgess, Jr." <jtburgess@predictive.com>
> Cc: ion@nexen.com
> Subject: Re: A Science Fiction Story
> 	[...]
> [Sure, many folks are looking to install ATM backbones, but it's not
> clear to me that the SAR function should be in the home. There are
> ISP's who would rather see PPP/HDLC links over SONET rather than give
> up the 10+% of each link to ATM.]

This last issue is probably self-correcting.  I suspect that those ISPs
who refuse to even consider ATM due to its overhead will loose out
to those ISPs which perform a cost/performance analysis and select the
most cost-effective wide-area services.

(I actually have some private e-mail where an ISP complained that
he was "forced" to use ATM because it was more cost-effective than
point-to-point SONET links.)

-tjs