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Re: Critically compare the congestion control on TCP/IP and ATM?

2000-03-10 13:30:03

Dan Grossman writes:

| ATM has a carefully defined traffic management architecture. 

Yes, that's its problem.

From issue 10 of "New Carrier" (http://www.totaltele.com/newcarrier";, p 22:

 ... the past several years' debates over the relative technical
 merits of [the] Internet Protocol versus other network technologies
 like ATM, often missed the point.  IP and its associated technologies
 haven't taken over because they produce a brilliantly efficient network,
 but because they together seem capable of creating a dynamic
 openness for the network economy; this is because of, and not
 despite, a simplicity and a lack of carrier-style attributes.

        Sean.