No Subject

...

What's ATM?

ATM == Asynchronous Transfer Mode. It is a link-layer packets-switched network that can guarantee data throughput at the cost of some latency (and denial-of-service for other customers).

But the idea that it will replace the Internet is nothing more than a telco wet dream. Unfortunatly most telco data networking types (an oxymoron) really think that Internet can be replaced by ATM (as opposed to IP over ATM which is a viable posibility for future high speed networks). brad