11 Sep
1997
11 Sep
'97
7:33 p.m.
On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Richard Irving wrote:
Oh, 2 things come to mind, my variability throughout an ATM cloud is greatly reduced versus a routing cloud, a cell requires WAY less time to cross a switches backplane, versus a packet through a router. And seriuosly less time to determine where to send it...
Hmm... I thought we went over this fallacy not that long ago on NANOG. Please look up the past NANOG thread with subject _Internet Backbone Index_. -dorian