Re: Which is more efficient?

2009-01-15 Thread Bill Stewart
On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Murphy, Jay, DOH 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 applications are. I'

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

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

Re: Which is more efficient?

2009-01-14 Thread Josh Potter
; > -Original Message- > From: Murphy, Jay, DOH [mailto:jay.mur...@state.nm.us] > Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 3:56 PM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Which is more efficient? > > > All, > > In your humble opinion, which transmission method is more effi

RE: Which is more efficient?

2009-01-14 Thread Scott Berkman
better off with a variable length packet, especially when bandwidth is less in demand than processing power. -Scott -Original Message- From: Murphy, Jay, DOH [mailto:jay.mur...@state.nm.us] Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 3:56 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Which is more

Which is more efficient?

2009-01-14 Thread Murphy, Jay, DOH
All, In your humble opinion, which transmission method is more efficient, packet or cell? Granted a cell is a fixed length packet and an IP packet is variable lengthwould this necessarily only relate to a specific protocol, namely, cell in ATM, and IP in Ethernet or other types of domai