Re: ATM vs. PPP encapsulation latency (OT)

From: Jersey Guy (guy.jersey@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Feb 26 2009 - 20:27:24 ARST


Sorry, clarification:

We replaced PA-A3-T3 with PA-POS-OC3SMI. We were running ATM over DS3, now
we're running PPP over SONET.

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:27 PM, shiran guez <shiranp3@gmail.com> wrote:

> ATM is a method for data transmision while PPP is method used to establish
> a Point to Point Link, two diffrent things.
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> 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.
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> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Jersey Guy <guy.jersey@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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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