ATM Utility

[tjs () msc edu (Tim Salo)]

> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 14:43:37 -0400
> From: Vadim Antonov <avg () sprint net>
> To: nanog () merit edu, schoff () us psi com, sesqui-all () ns sesqui net,
>         sob () academ com
> Subject: Re:  wiretapping continues....
> Cc: psieng () psi com
>       [...]
> We will hit limitations of the present/then-future routing technology
> long before we'll exhaust the possibilities to increase the
> NAP aggregate and access bandwidth by cheap incremental upgrades.
> That's the whole point of Sprint NAP architecture. ATM/SMDS/Flame Delay
> do not get even close to what we achieve (and ATM is not useful yet).
>       [...]

I believe that ATM, even in its perhaps immature state, is useful and
cost-effective in a number of applications today.  In particular,
the cost of wide-area DS-3 ATM services can be very attractive 
when compared to a number of point-to-point DS-3s.

-tjs
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