Lars B. Dybdahl wrote:
TCP/IP is not the best protocol around.
This means absolutely nothing. To begin with, TCP/IP is not a protocol,
it's a suite. TCP is as different from IP as a fruit is from a tree.
If the best technology had won, we would all use ATM by now.
TCP/IP just has this tiny little advantage of being there first.
This means absolutely nothing either. I use TCP/IP over ATM right now,
there are unrelated topics. Ever heard of the OSI model? ATM is mostly a
layer 2 issue, IP layer 3 and TCP layer 4.
Contrary to what you state, most PPPoE aDSL residential connections are
ATM 0/35 on the phone line. They are no longer RFC 1483 as they used to
but nevertheless use ATM cells going to an ATM backbone.
As far as voice is concerned, I have deployed large VOIP networks over
Ethernet and QOS is not an issue especially if you have a VLAN for voice
and another one for data.
I also use VOIP over Ethernet over WAN links; and I have recently phased
out frame-relay infrastructures to replace them with FRoATM. For the
goal of carrying IP traffic, of course.
Please stop spreading FUD.
Michel Py
CCIE #6673