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>  >In an AAL stream, cells of a packet must be contigeous. So, on
>  >routers, you can't merge two AAL streams into a single AAL stream
>  >without having a packet buffer, which means a packet-size delay.
>  
> this is NOT true
> 
> you can introduce intercell spacing in an AAL stream

The claim was that "In an AAL stream" the cells must be contiguous,
which is true. Multiple streams can be merged on a link, but within a
single stream on a single VC, a packet must be composed of consecutive
cells. 

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