Re: Which is more efficient?

2009-01-15 Thread Joe Abley
On 2009-01-14, at 15:56, Murphy, Jay, DOH wrote: In your humble opinion, which transmission method is more efficient, packet or cell? When you say transmission method are you just interested in packet/ cell forwarding, or are you also including the effort involved in segmentation and

Re: Which is more efficient?

2009-01-15 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:56:11 MST, Murphy, Jay, DOH said: In your humble opinion, which transmission method is more efficient, packet or cell? In my humble opinion, if you care about actual in-the-field efficiency as opposed to theoretical or in-the-lab results, I think you'll find that there is

Re: Which is more efficient?

2009-01-15 Thread Bill Stewart
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Murphy, Jay, DOH jay.mur...@state.nm.us wrote: In your humble opinion, which transmission method is more efficient, packet or cell? ... Trying to make a decision on the transport mode for cost, delay, jitter, ROI, etcetera. It really depends on what your

RE: Which is more efficient?

2009-01-14 Thread Scott Berkman
Packets can have a max size as well based on the path MTU, such as 1500 bytes in an Ethernet (10/100) link. I think there are a lot of other variables here such as are you billed per data unit, bandwidth and control factors on the links, and what type of data is being sent. If your data can

Re: Which is more efficient?

2009-01-14 Thread Josh Potter
What type of traffic are you looking at sending? As Scott said smaller payloads that need to be sent quickly work out well in fixed cells but larger payloads would be better off in variable sized packets. Also are you looking at simple data transmission rates or are you wanting to factor in