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To: Robert Romero who wrote (251)	9/27/1996 3:57:00 PM
From: Tom Eames	of 12823

The overhead of ATM is routinely overstated. ISDN is an ok internet technology with two major FUTURE problems - speed and wasting class 5 switch capacity. The speed is probably ok for now - I'm on ISDN and its just fine for now. I find the servers and backbones seem to cause more congestion than my ISDN line by FAR. As the servers are goosed up, the backbone becomes high performance ATM and the applications get more sophisticated, ISDN will become a bottleneck. Its not here yet. By the time these improvements are made, xdsl will fix both problems. XDSL ( ADSL, VDSL and FTTC) will run very fast ( 6/13/26/52 mb/s downstream) and bypass the class five switch and go directly (via ATM) to big Routers and on into the backbones. ISDN will not fail, it will live a usefull life and then be replaced ( for Internet use) as is the case with all technologies ( remember the little MAC SE - it was wonderful little box that did great things for many years and Apple did real well!). There is no doubt that there is a lot of investment as this trend moves forward on a lot of fronts. There will be many winners!

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