The misconception that ATM is half dead/half live may have deterred some big players from entering the lucrative ATM PHY market, which has a very high threshold for initial investment. This situation has, ironically, kept PMCS's monopoly in that market.
In reality, all the large telecommunications companies, Sprint's ION, Williams (WMB), Qwest, Level 3, ... are all deploying nation wide ATM networks like crazy.
biz.yahoo.com
Wednesday July 8, 10:25 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Williams
Williams Unveils Cost-Effective Usage-Based Billing for ATM
TULSA, Okla., July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Williams Network has signed an agreement with Concentric Network to beta test Williams' Usage-Based ATM Service (ATM UB[SM]). ATM UB(SM) is a pricing structure that bills customers for actual usage sent across the ATM network.
nwfusion.com
SPRINT'S BIG NET GAMBLE
By David Rohde
Network World, 6/8/98
New York - Sprint Corp. last week threw its hat into the convergence ring, announcing a new network architecture that aggregates voice and data traffic into ATM cells at the customer premise and ships it end-to-end over broadband facilities.
The new platform is called the Integrated On-Demand Network, or ION. The platform will potentially support any type of voice, data or video stream from users and ship it over leased digital subscriber lines or dedicated fiber access lines to Sprint ATM service nodes.
Largely complete in the backbone but still a work in progress at the edge, ION resembles several new, heavily publicized carrier networks, but with one big difference: It's all ATM from the customer premises out, rather than presenting a native IP face to the wide area.
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