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Query: What's ATM? ... ATM = Asynchronous Transfer Mode. This is a switched service running at at least 155 Mb/sec using optical fiber. 600Mb are expected to follow not much later. A single strand to customer premises provides that bandwidth full duplex. The strand provides for many multiplexed virtual circuits a bit

At 11:48 2/16/94 -0800, Robert M. Solovay wrote: ... like X.25 except that it will probably be priced according to a bandwidth selected at call setup and you will be prevented from exceeding that rate during the call. This service should be sufficient for video. Simillar technologies are being built for local LANs where each computer has a full duplex 155 Mb potential instead of the aggregate 10Mb provided by Ethernet.