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To: Eric Goethals who wrote (29588)	12/3/1997 8:09:00 AM
From: Outsider	Respond to of 31386

Eric, Does requesting a backgrounds in ATM point to a DMT company ONLY? The answer to this question is no. ATM can be transferred with CAP also. IMO, For a company that is going to do a rollout, it sounds like they are an ISP, not a xDSL company (manufacturer). I say this based on the job opportunities that they have. Most have something to do with or require knowledge in the networking (IT / IS) field. Also, the Senior Network Engineer - CPE position will evaluate different CPE products from different vendors and select based on his testing methodology. M

To: Eric Goethals who wrote (29588)	12/3/1997 11:25:00 AM
From: Andreas Helke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 31386

The choice of networking protocol is independent from the choice of line code. ATM is a special case because it can be a software protocoll specification or a hardware device to connect to a network. To connect a ADSL modem to a computer you have the following choices wich are independend from the linecode you use: USB - cheap and easy but only availabe with pretty new mainboards Ethernet NIC - cheap but not as easy as you need an interupt an IO address and with some cards a memory window mapped into the first MB of your computers RAM ATM NIC - pretty expensive and IMHO overkill PCI bus card which might use ATM - might be cheap if manufactured in very high numbers BTW I recently spend more than an hour to try various interupt and IO compbinations of a 3Com ethernet nic until I found one that worked. The test software was happy with almost all combinations that I tried but the Novell Netware client software did not run. I had transfered the nic from one dead Sanyo AT (original Intel 80286) acting as a charon email gateway to another identical computer. Andreas