From: "Joe Rhett" <joe@Navigist.Com>
ATM -> Flat/Star/Web/whatever. You can create both bandwidth and redundancy without routing.
I am consistently amazed at the number of people who think that defining an additional diversely-routed PVC through a single physical ATM connection creates "redundancy". Clearly these folks have never had a card go south on them.
The best (and _the only_) way to add real redundancy to ATM-LANE network is to use other (100baseTX usially) protocol for it, as (for example) CISCO do in their projects they like to present. -:) They defend network against ATM's bugs. --- Aleksei Roudnev, Network Operations Center, Relcom, Moscow (+7 095) 194-19-95 (Network Operations Center Hot Line),(+7 095) 239-10-10, N 13729 (pager) (+7 095) 196-72-12 (Support), (+7 095) 194-33-28 (Fax)