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To: Jeffrey L. Henken who wrote (4465)	5/10/1998 11:13:00 PM
From: micromike	Respond to of 18016

Here is a interesting article explaining why ATM is a hot product. The only problem I have is that they think Ascend Communications company is the industry leader in ATM. I don't follow Ascend but I know Newbridge has the biggest as far as data thru-put goes so far so I would say NNC is the industry leader presently. pathfinder.com These reinvented data networks eventually will carry voice and video communications too. Today the volume of data traffic on the world's communication networks is roughly equivalent to the volume of ordinary calls. But data traffic is growing wildly, somewhere between 200% and 600% a year, vs. just 10% a year for voice. Within five years or so, the volume of traffic on data networks will dwarf that of phone calls. Then it will make sense to start converting phone calls into digital bits and adding them to the traffic flow at very little cost, like fleas hitching a ride on an elephant. (Yurie is a rising player in a switch technology called ATM, for asynchronous transfer mode, which is of great interest to phone companies because it can handle voice and video as easily as it moves data.) --- Mike