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- From: Z.Wang@cs.ucl.ac.uk (Zheng Wang)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.cell-relay
- Subject: Re: Curious attitude ...
- Message-ID: <2813@ucl-cs.uucp>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 11:44:51 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.ucl.ac.uk
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- Isn't ATM just a compromise between packet switching
- and circuit switching?
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- ATM may transport voice worse than circuit switching (in terms
- of quality) and transport data worse than packet switching
- (in terms of efficiency). The point is that ATM may do both
- sufficiently (or reasonably) well and you get integration,
- scaling and value for money.
-
- Zheng
-