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- From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
- Subject: What's the point of ATM?
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- Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:57:45 GMT
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- Well, I've been reading about how ATM is supposed to revolutionalise LANs,
- but I'm damned if I can figure out why. It looks like a good protocol for
- combining voice and data in a WAN, but what can it do for a LAN that a
- smarter bridge/router couldn't? Or is it just being used as a very fast
- brouter?
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