[c-nsp] Re: T1 circuits over OC3

[Phillip Vandry]

On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 08:00:59AM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 07:51:15AM +0200, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:
> > If nobody wants that cell loss, why did they specify ATM for ADSL?
> 
> Flexibility...  multiple parallel Layer2 (!) VCs over a single physical 
> wire (and different customers on the same DSLAM getting serviced by
> different ISPs).  ATM isn't *that* bad here...

Ascend (Lucent) DSL used to use Frame Relay. We had a lot of that
equipment. Though in the end the DSL TNT wasn't that great a DSLAM,
it served us very well, and you can do multiple services just as
well as with ATM.

-Phil

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