Re: ATM comes and goes

[Paul Ferguson <[e-mail]>]

At 09:45 AM 5/17/96 -0400, Dharmesh Shah wrote:

>IPATMers,
>
>My two cents worth of thought on this now dead thread...
>
>I have heard that the next killer-app for ATM will be the internet.  
>Sounds good.  This should include internet from home.  I would hope that 
>the telcos, the cablecos, the utilcos would provide me with access to the 
>internet via ATM on my PC.  This could be at flat-costs depending on the 
>MCR I ask for when subscribing to the service.  There are many bandwidth 
>mongers for whom NISDN is not enough (BTW, I still use a 2400 baud modem).  
>ATM could enable ISPs to provide very flexible data-rate vs. pricing 
>options.  Is this happening now?
>

No, at least not as purvasive as you mentioned. ATM is being used
by some backbone providers to increase their capacity. As other
more efficient technologies evolve, such as Packet over Sonet,
this may indeed change.

Will it happen? Who knows. With the IP-over-ATM cell tax and the
advent of gigabit-ethernet, ATM as we know (or envision) it
could be a thing of the past in the future.

My $.02, and certainly not representative of cisco Systems, Inc.

- paul

>Regards,
>
>DS
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