<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">ATM failover didn't really depend on the encapsulation.<div><br></div><div>AAL5 is what was used for things like CLIP, LANE etc</div><div>AAL2 IIRC was a video, CBR kind of encoding.</div><div><br></div><div>The vendor I used to (almost) work for had a Smart Switched Virtual Circuits system which rerouted VCs in case of failure.</div><div><br></div><div>What you can use will probably be vendor and hw specific.</div><div><br></div><div>MMC</div><div>(who used to build big ATM networks in the early/mid 90s).</div><div><br><div><div>On 07/03/2010, at 4:52 PM, Narelle wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Can someone with a better memory than me remind me of the best L2<br>failover mechanisms for ATM?<br>Any pros and cons for any variation in techniques (other than the obvious).<br><br>from memory AAL2 was different to AAL5...<br><br>I'll figure out how best to set it up once I remember it can be done.<br>No flames please, there are good reasons for these things sometimes,<br>you know...<br><br><br>cheers, tia<br><br><br><br>-- <br><br><br>Narelle<br><a href="mailto:narellec@gmail.com">narellec@gmail.com</a><br>_______________________________________________<br>AusNOG mailing list<br>AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net<br>http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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