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I am told that Cisco has an OC-3 interface to its 75XX series of routers. If so why would you need a cluster of routers around each ATM switch? ********************************************************************* Gordon Cook, Editor & Publisher Subscriptions: Individ-ascii $85 The COOK Report on Internet Individ. hard copy $150 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA Small Corp & Gov't $200 (609) 882-2572 Corporate $350 Internet: [email protected] Corporate Site Lic. $650 http://pobox.com/cook/ for new COOK Report Glossary of Internet terms ********************************************************************* On Tue, 19 Mar 1996, Dorian Kim wrote: > 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... > > I'm being picky, but it's a moot question since doing wirespeed OC3c using > ATM is impossible in of itself. Hell, mapping of SONET framings to ATM > cells take off about 6 mbps right there. > > Anyway, until then you have a router that can do this, there always are > ATM switches + cluster of routers. > > -dorian >
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