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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: Where are ATM NAPs going?
I wrote: > > From a research university perspective, the AADS NAP is a cool thing. It > > lets me do peering & various types of transit on a single circuit, & the > > availability of the route servers is nice. The full mesh of PVCs removes > > most of the layer 1-2 pain involved with firing up new interactions. The > > circuit to get there isn't cheap, but it seems worth it based on my > > experience. On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Christian Kuhtz wrote: > Do you have any expectations with regards to service provided between various > peers and the fact that some peers may (depending on your ATM QoS) step onto > other peering partners? The short answer is "no". ;^) The longer answer is that I'm aware of the potential chaos & nondeterminism associated with a multi-user contention-based UBR service such as that offered by the AADS NAP. It's certainly an issue, but it doesn't disqualify it from being a useful piece of a connectivity puzzle provided that one utilizes it with eyes open about its characteristics. ________________________________________________________________________ Jay Ford, Network Engineering Group, Information Technology Services University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242 email: [email protected], phone: 319-335-5555, fax: 319-335-5505
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