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To: Grand Poobah who wrote (19736)	8/14/1999 7:16:00 PM
From: Jack Whitley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25814

<<I had a recent conversation with a brother of friend who is an engineer in the telecom business. I asked him about ATM replacing IP for WAN. He said he didn't think it would ever happen, because bandwidth is going to rapidly get so cheap that the network protocol won't matter. Since IP is already so widespread, there will be no reason to replace it with ATM. OTH, that reasoning may not apply to LAN's where Ethernet is currently king.>> ATM is already being used to transport voice in network core, IP is not there yet. Even with cheap, plentiful bandwidth, there are realtime issues with voice transmission that will have to be resolved for IP, in both call transport and termination of calls. I think support of this argument is a statement recently made by one of the Bay execs who stayed at Nortel, he said something to the effect that "doing packetized voice was a lot more complicated (compared to data) than he imagined". Sorry I can't remember his name, but it was within the last couple of weeks. ATM will have a long, lucrative run (years) before being put out to pasture. If LSI will benefit from that, fantastic. I am more concerned with the LSI CDMA execution (thanks Jock for conveying their status their via your call to IR). If they do that right, there will be some exciting times on this board. jww