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To: polarisnh who wrote (45345)	4/24/1998 8:27:00 PM
From: bucky89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 61433

It's pretty clear now that ATM to the desktop is dead, unless the customer has a lot of $$ and a mission-critical need to do video/multimedia. The processing overhead for ATM is enough to significantly degrade performance of the standard Pentium desktop. And then if you dedicate a processor to process the cells, the ATM LAN NIC becomes really expensive. At least that's what we found. The few sites we have which used ATM in the LAN really regret it. It's much more expensive and much less reliable. Performance is good, but the conclusion is it's not worth it. Today fast ethernet is an equivalent alternative, and tomorrow gigabit ethernet will be the choice. When I think of ATM, I'm thinking strictly WAN. Bucky89