Re: VCC cost models .... (was Re: Limits on SVCCs)

[Tim Salo <[e-mail]>]

> Date: Thu, 2 May 1996 09:30:08 +0500
> From: [e-mail] (Joel Halpern)
> To: [e-mail], [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: VCC cost models .... (was Re: Limits on SVCCs)
> Cc: [e-mail]
> 
> The recent discussion has been suggesting that a cut-through would
> "cost more" than a routed path across an NBMA fabric.
> 
> Maybe I am looking at this differently, but it seems to me definitional
> that a cut-through costs the same or less in real terms.
> 	[...]

I think the [reasonable] assumption upon which these discussions are
based is that in some instances the establishment of a new SVC will
have a real cost associated with it.  Configurations in which this
charging scheme seem more likely are those which include a wide-area
ATM service provided by a carrier.  For example, in a configuration in
which two campus-area ATM networks are interconnected by a wide-area
ATM service, it may be desirable to establish cut-through SVCs within
the campus networks, but use existing VCs over the wide area.

On the other hand, I don't know of any wide-area ATM services which 
currently offer SVCs; I think carriers have a number of technical
issues to address before they can think about pricing for SVCs.

-tjs