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[Rick Bubenik <rick@stl.nexen.com>]

> >>> From: Tim Dwight <0006078043@mcimail.com>
> 	[..]
> >>> To my knowledge there is no 'true mpt-to-mpt ATM level service'.
> >>> mpt-mpt connectivity is a concept, not a service, whose most direct
> >>> analogue at the ATM layer will be a mesh of pt-mpt connections.  The
> >>> difficulty in supporting true mpt-mpt is in bandwidth allocation (i.e.,
> >>> in the connection-oriented nature of ATM).
> 
>  Rick Bubenik replie:
> >>I'm aware of several ATM switches that support a true mpt-to-mpt
> >>(bidirectional) ATM level service.
> 
> Grenville Armitage writes:
> Could you describe in more detail what is meant by 'true' in
> this context? Do you mean switches that allow bi-directional
> mpt-mpt VPs (rather than VCs), where the endpoints must still
> manage the VCI distribution/allocation per source?

Yes, this is what I was referring to.

	rick

> cheers,
> gja
>