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On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, James Laszko wrote: > Most MPLS networks use a combination of point to point, frame and ATM > facilities as the infrastructure. The phone companies use ATM just > about everywhere to deliver voice across their networks. I don't see > ATM/FR equipment being EOL'd anytime in the near future. > really, that is interesting. > > > James Laszko > Pipeline Communications, Inc. > [email protected] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Christopher L. Morrow > Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 10:25 AM > To: Jason Frisvold > Cc: Petri Helenius; Philip Lavine; nanog > Subject: Re: ATM > > > > On Wed, 29 Jun 2005, Jason Frisvold wrote: > > > > > On 6/29/05, Petri Helenius <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Maybe the small fact that ATM is fading away and building new > networks > > > with technology going away is going to explode your operational cost > in > > > a few years time. Business grade IP networks will provide you with > equal > > > if not better performance than a "dedicated" ATM WAN. > > > > And being replaced with .... ? GigE? DPT/RPR? MPLS? > > > > ATM is a great technology... Unfortunately, I don't think it was ever > > fully utilized.. From what I understand, MPLS takes some of the good > > bits and combines it with traditional routing.. But I don't see a lot > > of MPLS implementations either... > > look to the private networks luke... Seriously, many large private > ATM/Frame networks are transitioning to MPLS networks because the ATM or > Frame gear is/was/will-be-shortly EOL/EOS from the vendors. The costs to > run these networks don't jibe well with the alternatives. > > Now, start the discussion on: "private network" and "mpls vpn" and > "oops, > hey, that runs over the same routers as that bad-old Internet thing with > the haxors and such!" > > :) >
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