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To: Larry J. who wrote (34857)	2/15/1998 9:22:00 PM
From: Glenn D. Rudolph	Respond to of 61433

As a network IS professional, your end-users are continuously finding new ways to leverage your network for business advantage. The resultant traffic load is rapidly pushing LAN and WAN backbones to the breaking point. At the same time you are struggling to support the high QoS demanded by new applications such as web browsing, desktop conferencing and collaborative groupware. ATM was designed to meet the specific networking challenges of more bandwidth and differentiated quality. It provides a flexible infrastructure for building your LAN and WAN backbone. ATM also boasts one of the most complete sets of standards with a full complement of specifications for interoperating with legacy networks. And, it's here today. ATM Integration; Discovering How ATM fits in your Network is designed to help you discover ATM's fit into your local and wide area network architecture. ATM Integration explores the capabilities and benefits of ATM and carefully examines it's interoperability with multiple legacy environments including ethernet, token ring, FDDI, frame relay, voice, and IP. The seminar is taught by leading ATM expert, Cathy Gadecki of TeleChoice, Inc. Cathy is co-author of the popular ATM for Dummiesr, c and T IDG Books Worldwide, with over 10,000 copies sold in its first six months. You will learn more about ATM, its uses, alternatives, and criteria for evaluating ATM vendors. You will leave the seminar with the information needed to help you decide whether to and how to implement ATM in your own enterprise network. Benefits of Attending 1. Understand how ATM can interoperate with various legacy networks, including ethernet, token ring, FDDI, frame relay, voice, and IP. 2. Learn how other users have implemented ATM, and how they justified the change. 3. Obtain a list of questions and checkpoints for evaluating ATM vendors. 4. Find out how you can use ATM as the backbone for your existing ethernet and token ring LANs and increase server throughput. 5. Explore how you can use ATM in your WAN to unplug your frame relay bottlenecks and increase Internet connection speeds. 6. Uncover the facts on using ATM to carry voice traffic. 7. Investigate practical strategies for transitioning your current network to a LAN or WAN ATM backbone. 8. Compare and contrast ATM to other solutions for the campus and wide area networks. 9. Learn three ways to send IP traffic over an ATM network. 10. Discuss options for implementing ATM as a LAN backbone. 11. Gain perspective on the advantages and disadvantages of ATM. 12. Develop an understanding of ATM jargon. 13. Find out what you can expect from future ATM equipment and services.