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To: Hal Campbell who wrote (3793)	11/11/1998 12:37:00 PM
From: Brian D. Potts	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17679

ATM also stands for Asyncronous Transfer Mode, a communications method (I hate acronyms, that's IHA for short..). I think that's what they were referring to.

To: Hal Campbell who wrote (3793)	11/11/1998 12:52:00 PM
From: Ed Perry	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17679

<< store and forward ATM telecommunications >> I believe this refers to a LAN packet protocol which is the possible follow-on to the de-facto ancient Ethernet standard. Current Ethernet capacity in an office setting would be brought to it's knees as soon as big digital multimedia files were sent around the loop. Consider: "For one thing, ATM allows you to build arbitrarily large meshed networks, so you can provide redundant connections wherever needed. In addition, ATM's routing scheme, known as Private Network-to-Network Interface (PNNI), offers such features as topology discovery, new switch and link discovery, load balancing, and link failure recovery. Try getting those capabilities out of Ethernet's spanning-tree algorithm, or most routing protocols." Everyone should have this <g>. For complete but readable details see: performancecomputing.com Ed Perry