Re: Internet II is coming...

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data, after SONET, ATM, IP and TCP overheads.

Perhaps, I missed your point...

Explicit: 6meg is not very fast for an uplink speed for a whole ISP. Implicit: There seems to be a lot of: "It's ATM so it must be fast" going around. This conclusion does not follow.

regards, fletcher

To move IP packets, it will always be faster without ATM than with ATM at any given linerate. The rest is pricebstructure, tarrifs, politics and marketing. --Peter