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To: pat mudge who wrote (3963)	3/31/1998 9:22:00 PM
From: thebeach	Respond to of 18016

What a post,thanks again Pat.

To: pat mudge who wrote (3963)	4/1/1998 9:51:00 AM
From: Doug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18016

Pat:Thx for that link regarding ATM . There is no doubt that the existing T1/T3 Frame cloud is slowly being replaced by an ATM equivalent. However the speed of that transition depends on the last mile traffic. There is a need to get that traffic moving and increase its volume. Multimedia was supposed to increase volume. In fairness Convergence technology has the means to do that. However because of cost and speed constraints on the last mile, Multimedia traffic growth has been slow. It would seem that the future growth of ATM is closely linked to the speed at which the last mile problem can be solved. Hybrid coax, ADSL,RDSL etc are excellent solutions but have run into Consumer resistance. There is an urgent need to find a cost effective solution. Incidentally,theres Money to be made in Fibre too. There is an urgent need for an Optical switch. I hope some garage Enthusiast will get cracking.!

To: pat mudge who wrote (3963)	4/1/1998 5:38:00 PM
From: Azim Tarmohamed	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 18016

Pat, that was an excellent article you posted. I have not read this thread for a while and came across an article which I beleive would be of interest to those following the Gigabit Ethernet v/s ATM argument. Here is the link. Andy Bechtolsheim declares "Death to ATM!": redherring.com For those of you who do not know, Andy was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems. Even though the article is quite long, I suggest that those interested, read the entire article to get an idea of the opposite argument. Azim.