Zbyslaw --
Don't forget Cisco was a big sponsor of the recent Broadband Year, here in San Diego, formerly called ATM Year.
Their brochure --- visible everywhere you turned --- was titled: IP+ATM: A Gateway to the New World. Let me quote from the opening pages:
It's not often that enormous new market opportunities suddenly appear on the scene. Yet that is exactly what's happening in the business data services market today. Several important trends are converging to shape a highly profitable opportunity for service providers who act quickly.
In the New World of networking, some shifts are occurring. Data has eclipsed voice as the dominant network traffic. IP technologies and applications have become indispensable for many business processes, including mission-critical, automated extranet, and remote-access applications. In the New World of networking, companies increasingly turn to service providers for vital networking services.
Service providers already enjoy significant revenue streams from ATM, Frame Relay, leased-line, and managed services. As the New World of networking dawns, demand is escalating for IP-based services as voice over IP (VoIP), IP virtual private networks (VPNs), managed intranets, intranet content hosting, videoconferencing, call-center solutions, and electronic commerce applications. . . .
What is the best way for service providers to enter the New World? With IP+ATM solutions from cisco Ssytems. . . .
The solution is the marriage of IP and ATM. . .
Clearly the man needs to meet with his marketing department a bit more often.
I'm beginning to think you may be right on those stolen ATM machines. :)
Pat |
