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> >> > > On Tue, 19 Mar 1996, Arun Welch wrote: > > >>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. >Last year, I was involved with some vendor work that was being done to >optimize the >SONET payload for various protocols. In particular, the 'growth' bytes >Z3, Z4, and/or Z5 in >the SONET Path overhead would be used to optimize the payload size >based on the >protocol being used. The thought was that such an optimization would >take place at the >"edge" of the network, where local traffic is passed to a WAN, via >SONET. ATM was being >focused on in particular, especially with the concatenated (OC-Nc) >payload. I was told that >IP has now been added to the list of protocols that SONET would >optimize/support. If this >work comes out as a SONET standard, it would be a great plus when using >OC-3c interfaces >on routers. > > > mm mm sssss nnnnnn * Bharat Ranjan * > m m m s nnnnnnn * Network Engineer * > m m m sssss nn nn * Microsoft On-Line Services * > m m s nn nn * (206)-936-0471 * > m m sssss nn nn * [email protected] * > ******************************************************* > * The opinions/ideas in this memo are not necessarily * > * those of Microsoft Corp. * > ******************************************************* > > > >
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