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NODE c4cb117fNo Subject solovay@math.berkeley.edu (Robert M. Solovay)Wed, 16 Feb 94 11:50:22 PST

Eric writes:

Yeah, the internet technology is changing.  ATM is coming.

Query:
	What's ATM?

	--Bob Solovay

NODE 1c32c065No Subject Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>Wed, 16 Feb 94 13:10:23 PST

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

NODE 8ee78330No Subject Brad Huntting <huntting@glarp.com>Wed, 16 Feb 94 14:15:14 PST

>> 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

NODE 355c39f2ATM v. IP/ATM v. Frame Relay jdwilson@gold.chem.hawaii.edu (Jim Wilson (VA))Fri, 18 Feb 94 09:05:36 PST

Brad:

Where do you forsee Frame Relay fitting into the NII/InterNet picture?

-Jim