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- From: rowland@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi
- Subject: Re: Computers dont like ATM?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.104113.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi>
- Lines: 33
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- Organization: Nokia Telecommunications.
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 08:41:13 GMT
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- [Gregory Finn wrote :]
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- > ATM is politically very popular. Arguments that ATM brings
- >about end-to-end compatibility do not impress me. Most LAN traffic
- >stays within the LAN. Forcing LANs to comply with WAN data-link
- >standards is putting the cart before the horse.
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- "Most LAN traffic stays within the LAN" - The meaning of "most" is
- shifting. Why couldn't the inter/intra LAN traffic ratio grow to
- nearer 50/50 in the future ? LAN traffic characteristics are
- evolving as the technology constraints are relaxed or removed.
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- Question : When video telephony does take off, will visually attractive
- people receive more than the average number of calls ?
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- (don't ask me to define "visually attractive" !! )
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- Kevin Rowland,
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