[c-nsp] atm ubr settings?

[Roy]

goemon at anime.net wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Apr 2006, Antonio Querubin wrote:
>   
>> You may not notice a difference now if there is only one active VC on the
>> entire circuit but the moment you have a multiple active VCs and the
>> aggregate ubr for those VCs approaches the line rate, I suspect you'll
>> start to see throughput issues.
>>     
>
> The argument he is giving goes like this:
>
> "we have 600 customers at site XYZ, all set to 45mbps, and nobody has 
> complained yet. therefore there is no problem setting everyone to 45mbps 
> always".
>
> -Dan
>
>   

YMMV.. I experienced the problem with one 768kbps DSL customer with a T3 
on my end many years ago when we were converting to the T3.  The first 
test customer got a download rate of about 3 kbps :-)  That's when I 
found out how important the UBR was