Tony Hammitt wrote: >In practice, this is being done for most of the network traffic. >As you may know, asynchronus transfer mode (ATM) uses 53 byte >'cells' with (I think) an 11 byte header, so they always transmit >64 bytes. Thing is, they can transmit an almost arbitrarily >large number of cells, the only limits being the medium and switch >used. hmm...does this give an overall better Quality of Service? BTW: i read recently that Bell Labs has done somewhere over 1,000 different wavelengths of light over fiber...very cool --------------- Evan Hoff evanh23@usa.net ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1