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by willempienaar 21 days ago
Also, the “cell” in Generic Cell Rate Algorithm is an ATM cell. GCRA is 1990s telecom, the scheduling algorithm ATM switches used to check that 53-byte cells were arriving on the wire at the agreed rate.
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Asynchronous Transfer Mode (I had to look it up too.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode