I would go ATM, due to transport architecture and reliability, especially
with voice...

John Neiberger wrote:

> Just a quick opinion poll for those of you who have implemented VoIP.
> Given a medium-sized partially-meshed network, would you prefer to use
> ATM or Frame Relay for your transport?  Assume that most locations would
> have DS1 speeds only.
>
> I ask this because I've been hearing a mixture of opinions.  It seems
> to me that ATM would allow us to utilize its CoS.  With FR you don't
> have much control over your traffic beyond FRTS and LLQ.  Once it hits
> the cloud you're at its mercy.
>
> However, I haven't heard any details yet but apparently someone at
> Cisco thinks that ATM has some scalability problems that FR doesn't
> have.  I can't imagine what that would be so it will be interesting to
> hear what he has to say.  I'd be surprised if he suggests FR instead of
> ATM.
>
> Right now, we have a large frame relay network but I'm seriously
> considering migrating portions of it to ATM.  After hearing these
> conflicting opinions I'm really not sure which path to take.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
> John




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