Eric writes: Yeah, the internet technology is changing. ATM is coming. Query: What's ATM? --Bob Solovay
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). It is the newest, "hotest" network being developed right now. -derek
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
Brad: Where do you forsee Frame Relay fitting into the NII/InterNet picture? -Jim
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solovay＠math.berkeley.edu