18 Dec
2000
18 Dec
'00
7:27 p.m.
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 ...
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.
My company (Marconi) makes such a switch: http://www.marconi.com/html/solutions/asx4000.htm Non-blocking OC-48c ATM interfaces have been shipping for some time now. -- David