Re: ATM vs. PPP encapsulation latency (OT)

From: shiran guez (shiranp3@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 26 2009 - 19:27:20 ARST

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ATM is a method for data transmision while PPP is method used to establish a
Point to Point Link, two diffrent things.

You can establish a link to your SP using PPP over ATM, ETHERNET, FR....

Please elaborate on what you mean as PPP is not an Interface.

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Jersey Guy <guy.jersey@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
> We recently changed our edge router's WAN interface to the service
> provider,
> from ATM to PPP. After doing this, latency to our SmokePing server went up
> by 10ms. Nothing else was changed.
>
> Is it documented anywhere that while PPP is more "efficient" than ATM, it
> adds some latency? Looking for some pointers...
>
> TIA, JG
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