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Technology Stocks : The *NEW* Frank Coluccio Technology Forum
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To: ftth who started this subject10/5/2000 6:07:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio   of 46821
 
About seven or eight years ago, when most of the higher speed IP connections were still rated at fractional or full T1, someone posing as a consultant to IBM wrote a paper in Business Communications Review that was designed to convince the reader that TCP/IP would not scale very well beyond T1 rates.

Of course, we know that this is bull. Other similar notions have prevailed about ATM, not being able to scale well beyond the OC12, and then the OC48 rate. I came across this piece in Light Reading the other day that suggests otherwise:

ATM Forum Achieves 10-Gig UTOPIA

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LONDON -- The ATM Forum Technical Committee has approved the UTOPIA Level 4 frame-based interface specification, which raises the speed of the ATM frame-based interface up to 10G rate. This is an important step in the development of ATM; the fastest data rate available today is 2.4Gbps. Several projects are currently in development which incorporate the UTOPIA Level 4 specification.

"Service Providers will be able to utilize a switch backbone that can be used with interchangeable linecards, allowing for 10Gbit pipes, Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM) up to 10Gbps and multiport linecards of up to 10Gbps," explains the ATM Forum's John Mick, Technical Chair, Physical Layer Group.

atmforum.com
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