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> > On Tue, 19 Mar 1996, David Miller wrote: > > > On Mon, 18 Mar 1996 [email protected] wrote: > > What kinds of routers can route at near wire speeds a bunch of ports at > > 155Mb ATM? > > None right now. Gigarouter can handle it theoretically, but... > We were able to get pretty close to "ATM wire speed" with our Gigarouter at OSC. The trick of course is to find equipment that can actually fill the pipe. > I'm being picky, but it's a moot question since doing wirespeed OC3c using > ATM is impossible in of itself. > Yup. There's work in progress to put IP directly on SONET, which should save people with OC-3c backbones from paying the ATM penalty. ...arun --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arun Welch 5000 Arlington Centre Blvd Lead Software Engineer Columbus, OH 43220 CompuServe [email protected]
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