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- From: gja@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Grenville Armitage)
- Subject: Re: What's the point of ATM?
- Message-ID: <9225810.17582@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>
- Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU
- Organization: Basket Weavers, Inc.
- References: <id.I94T.WPC@ferranti.com>
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- Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1992 00:13:16 GMT
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- In article <id.I94T.WPC@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
- >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?
-
- Throw the question at comp.dcom.cell-relay and cross your fingers
- for some reasonable defences :-)
-
- gja
-