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What size is a LIS?

  • From: Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.cc.titech.ac.jp>
  • Date: Mon, 15 May 95 18:53:38 JST
  • CC: ip-atm@matmos.hpl.hp.com

> On 5/11/95, Andrew Smith wrote:
> >Do people really want to pay for 100 overhead VCCs for 100 hosts
> >in the LIS across those long links, compared to 1 overhead VCC
> >if they could deploy MCSs ??
> 
> Obviously not, unless carriers offered secure switched virtual paths and
> the 100 overhead VCCs didn't cost extra.

So, if your organization belongs to 100 geographycally large LISes.
you will have unacceptable number of VCs,

That is, LISes can't scale geographically.

							Masataka Ohta