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Walter Milliken ATM Multicast service drafts

  • From: Mike Moreton <mike@madge.co.uk>
  • Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 08:40:02 +0200 (BST)

Andrew Smith said:

> The VP issue deserves a lot more investigation as a flow aggregation tool - I 
> would encourage people to look into this, particularly the flow-control aspects 
> of VPs.

I don't think any design that uses VPs to the end stations is a very good idea.
Some commercial ATM networks will use VP switches, so if you wanted to run
across one of these, it would at the very least cost you more money.

I think VPs should stay a network management tool, not a user tool.

Mike.