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Mpt-Pt AAL5 delimiting

  • From: onvural@vnet.ibm.com
  • Date: Thu, 28 Mar 96 19:55:33 EST

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Subject: Mpt-Pt AAL5 delimiting                                                
Bert, how does this differ from making those points VP end-points,             
have end-to-end connections cross one or more VP links,                        
as needed and terminate at the VP end points as needed and use                 
VCI for demultiplexing. This would make it all legal :). In either             
case, there is the problem of allocating unique VCs/source.                    
Raif                                                                           
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If AAL5 cells can't be interleaved because there's no way of unscrambling      
them after the fact,                                                           
                                                                               
If there would tend to be few senders and many more receivers in a mpt-pt      
connection, and                                                                
                                                                               
If one wants to establish one VC for the mpt-pt connection, then               
                                                                               
I wonder about a bastardized use of VPIs? How about each sender uses the       
same VCI but different VPIs? This would allow interleaving of AAL5 cells       
at all merge points while still keeping them identifiable. And scaling         
might not be a real problem.                                                   
                                                                               
This strange use of VPIs could become a problem when the intended use of       
VPs is implemented, but then again ATM switches could manage both uses of      
VPs separately, no? Couldn't switches dynamically keep track of which          
VPIs were to be terminated at own switch for mpt-pt connections, and           
which VPIs were just for cells in transit?                                     
                                                                               
Somehow, the meticulous buffering of n packets' worth of cells along the       
way is sure to incite the ire of the ATM god.                                  
                                                                               
Bert                                                                           
manfredi@engr05.comsys.rockwell.com