There's beginning to be some expectation that there will be a transmission
capacity crunch in the carrier's Sonet nets, and this ~25% ATM cell tax may
be looked at carefully as packet over Sonet solutions emerge.
I.e. a dual clearline DS-3 actually carries as much user data as OC-3c ATM.
Which, incidentally, was why SprintLink backbone design is easily expandable
to dual links (that includes carefully considering implications for routing).
Sean presented that design on NANOG a year ago, BTW. Funny thing, the design
is expandable beyond that, too, so OC-3 ATM is already obsolete.--vadim
Other than the SprintLink design Vadim mentions above, what other
alternatives are emerging for high bandwidth IP transport? Is anyone
implementing PPP over SONET (RFC 1619)?
Shikhar