That's called marketing-speak. You are having the right reaction of a true engineer (i.e. skepticism!) ;-) One of the biggest networks in the world is based on IP and ATM (and other technologies). It's called the Internet.
Priscilla At 12:17 PM 11/14/01, John Green wrote: >IP and ATM failed to deliver ? > >well i don't say this but got this from the web site >of a competitor of cisco!! >But that is besides the point. Below I have reproduced >the text verbatim. >what it says that both IP and ATM failed as carriers >to carry puredata >due to different reasons as explained below. IP due to >the packet >forwarding features in traditional routers (i guess >cisco), and ATM >because it itself could not scale to the levels >required for pure data. >well would some one explain this what and how exactly >? specially how >ATM fails to scale for data traffic ? >"Although both ATM and IP held the promise of building >converged >networks in principle, neither actually delivered in >practice. ATM >networks were unsuccessful because they could not >scale to the levels >required for pure data applications. Traditional IP >networks failed >because they used legacy routers that implemented >forwarding and >features in software. These routers were not able to >achieve anywhere >near the performance needed for delivering services at >speed. So >providers had to choose between providing simple >connectivity with no >services or providing poor performance with services enabled." > >__________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Find the one for you at Yahoo! Personals >http://personals.yahoo.com ________________________ Priscilla Oppenheimer http://www.priscilla.com Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=26275&t=26245 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
