bandwidth question

[Evan Hoff]

Tony Hammitt <thammitt at kc.rr.com> wrote:

>In practice, this is being done for most of the network traffic.
>As you may know, asynchronus transfer mode (ATM) uses 53 byte
>'cells' with (I think) an 11 byte header, so they always transmit
>64 bytes.  Thing is, they can transmit an almost arbitrarily
>large number of cells, the only limits being the medium and switch
>used.  

hmm...does this give an overall better Quality of Service?

BTW: i read recently that Bell Labs has done somewhere over 1,000
different wavelengths of light over fiber...very cool
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Evan Hoff
evanh23 at usa.net

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