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Feb 5 3:59 PM EST

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To: djane who wrote (43860)	4/12/1998 2:49:00 AM
From: Stimpson J. Cat	of 61433

As dense wavelength division multiplexing multiplies the available channels on a single fiber strand and terabit routers boost the capacity of those channels, talk has begun to surface that asynchronous transfer mode's role in the network may be short-lived. Terabit routers? ASND is just now the first with an OC-48 data interface and that's just for trunking. IP over Sonet/SDH, even if the links are muxed together with DWDM, doesn't scale in a carrier network. It's good only for point to point apps. Geography gets in the way sometimes. IP meshed with ATM is far more efficient in a large scale WAN. This is just DWDM FUD.

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