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- From: finn@isi.edu (Greg Finn)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.cell-relay
- Subject: Re: Is ATM well suited to LANs?
- Message-ID: <22926@venera.isi.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 02:17:41 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.104113.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi>
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- Reply-To: finn@dalek.isi.edu (Greg Finn)
- Organization: USC-Information Sciences Institute
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- In article <1992Nov19.104113.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi> rowland@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi writes:
-
- > "Most LAN traffic stays within the LAN" - The meaning of "most" is
- > shifting. Why couldn't the inter/intra LAN traffic ratio grow to
- > nearer 50/50 in the future ? LAN traffic characteristics are
- > evolving as the technology constraints are relaxed or removed.
-
- You suggest that traffic pattern which has been characteristic
- will markedly change in the future. Perhaps. But there are good
- reasons why heavily used network devices, such as laser printers and
- file servers, are located close to their typical user populations.
- The need for access and low latency are examples of those reasons.
- Neither reason is likely to be affected by the presence of ATM or its
- lack.
-
- Today's multimedia message traffic typically crosses the LAN
- at least twice: once to be stored in a nearby server, and once to be
- read. When you FTP a file from far away, where does it typically get
- stored today? Far from believing the 50/50 bound, I think that a
- strong argument can be made for 66/33 LAN/WAN as a typical upper
- bound. This ignores how much message traffic is received from
- intra-LAN sources, which has no WAN component. It also ignores the
- affect of local mailing lists, where one WAN message that is received
- may generate many LAN message transfers.
-
- > Question : When video telephony does take off, will visually attractive
- > people receive more than the average number of calls ?
-
- Video telephony over long distance will be very costly by
- comparison with intra-LAN video traffic. It is likely that it will be
- heavily compressed. Why restrict users on the LAN to MPEG with its
- artifacts if they have the capability to handle uncompressed data? If
- you call your colleague down the hall or on the next floor, why not
- use high resolution video?
-
- I find no compelling reasons why the typical LAN/WAN traffic
- ratio should move toward 50/50. You may know of some better examples.
- If so, sing out.
-
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- Gregory Finn (310) 822-1511
- Information Sciences Institute, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292
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