Re: (ASCEND) Is the TNT OC3 ATM Card a true OC3 card?

[Dan Pinkard <dan@broadspan.net>]

How seperate are the buses on a TNT? Does traffic from an ethernet
interface occupy a timeslot alongside any DS0 of traffic headed to a
resource card?

On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Matt Holdrege wrote:

> At 08:47 PM 2/8/99 +0100, Eden Akhavi wrote:
> >Does the TNT OC3 support full OC3 or is it just a DS3 with OC3 Interface?
> 
> It's a full OC3. But think about how much data you are transporting from
> the other interfaces. Realistically, would they generate much more than
> 45Mbps sustained?
>  
> It would also depend on how much traffic is on the internal bus. Thanks to
> the performance improvements we've made, we've reduced a lot of the
> extraneous traffic from the data bus. In optimal situations, you could
> generate a lot of traffic from the media cards to an OC-3 egress. But in
> most ISP situations, you have bursty traffic.
> 
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