Re: ATM comes and goes

Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> Sat, 18 May 1996 06:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: ATM comes and goes
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> 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.  

"the next"? Are there any previous?

> 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.

Considering that telcos are now having 6Mbps over copper, that's
completely unlikely.

> This could be at flat-costs depending on the 
> MCR I ask for when subscribing to the service.

Flat-cost over the existing copper is a lot lower than that over
optical fibers.

> There are many bandwidth 
> mongers for whom NISDN is not enough

Right. So, NISDN will also disappear with all the other switching
networks.

							Masataka Ohta