Re: Re. ATM Comes and Goes

Juha Heinanen <jh@lohi.dat.tele.fi> Sat, 18 May 1996 06:11 UTC

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X-Info: Archives via http://cell-relay.indiana.edu/cell-relay/archives/IPATM/IPATM.html In other words, I think the next generation of switches should be multi-network technology switches rather than separate interfaces for ATM or Ethernet or Token Ring .... Just like the movement from single-protocol routers to multiprotocol routers.

this discussion is again far off from the objectives of ip-atm mailing
list, but i can't resist to comment the above.  i namely have not yet
had a change to see a working multiprotocol router.  once you start
adding protocols, price and complexity go way up and at the same time
reliability and manageability go way down.  i would not like to see that
happening with switching.

-- juha