What’s not relevant about IP/ATM WANs?

• TCP performance problems

  • Making TCP go fast is hard
  • Making TCP go far is hard
  • Making TCP go fast and far is really hard
  • Medium selection is largely irrelevant
    • Yes, some early ATM switches were broken
    • I have seen no empirical evidence that ATM (as a technology) works poorly in WANs

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