RE: ethernet

From: Michael Snyder (msnyder@xxxxxxx)
Date: Thu Aug 22 2002 - 19:52:50 GMT-3

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Are you saying that ATM should be called STM?

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From: nobody@groupstudy.com [mailto:nobody@groupstudy.com] On Behalf Of
Wade Edwards
Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2002 5:20 PM
To: Michael Snyder; Michael Spencer
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Subject: RE: ethernet

I would submit that Ethernet is asynchronous because it is an ad hoc
medium and synchronization occurs in-band and is per packet. ATM is
synchronous because there are certain timeslots and synchronization
occurs out of band.

L8r

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