What's the point of ATM?

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From: peter da silva
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 20:57

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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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Peter da Silva                                               `-_-'
Ferranti Intl. Ctls. Corp.                                    'U` 
Sugar Land, TX  77487-5012
+1 713 274 5180                                   Har du kramat din varg idag?

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