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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?
So, what you're saying is that I should tell all the folks that want to peer via ATM at CMH-IX (which supports 10/100/GE at this time) that they should get bent or get GigE, right? THANK YOU! John Fraizer EnterZone, Inc CMH-IX NAP On Mon, 18 Dec 2000, Leo Bicknell wrote: > > > Regardless of how good the technologies are, the router vendors > have killed ATM as a future nap technology. To use the Cisco example, > ATM tops out an OC-12, and has less port density than anything else at > that speed (eg 3xGBE in the same slot). While cute, this is useless > for an exchange of the future, where Gigabit will be the preferred connection > in the sort term, and 10GigE will be the long term solution. > > Yesterday's 1 meg public peer on 100meg FE is turning into today's > 10 meg public peer on 100Meg FE/622Mbps ATM, which is really a step backwards. > They need to be on Gigabit soon, as tomorrow they will be the 100meg public > peer, and you'll want to upgrade to 10GigE interfaces. > > If there were OC-48 or OC-192 ATM coming, and/or switches with the > density to make that work it would have a future, but alas, that seems to > not be in any vendors road map. > > -- > Leo Bicknell - [email protected] > Systems Engineer - Internetworking Engineer - CCIE 3440 > Read TMBG List - [email protected], www.tmbg.org >
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