From:	Mark Imbriaco <mark@**.ODU.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Ahhhhhhh replay
Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 1994 23:20:16 -0400

On Thu, 14 Apr 1994, Brian W. Allison wrote:

> Is it Asynchronous Transfer Mode?? I've done some work with it, but it
> was only a month or two, very periphreal (had a lot of other stuff to
> research at the time) and it was 2 years ago. Unfortunately, it is not
> compabtible with the current phone system, and American and European
> packet sizes were not the same. I believe there was a compromise which
> arrived at a size in between them, but made neither side happy.

Yes, ATM stands for Aysnchronus Transfer Mode. It is synonymous
to Ethernet, only using fiber instead of Ethernet cable. We have a beta
setup here, and it is the extremely low-end version, only 150 Megabit.
:-) The current maximum is, I believe, 1 Gigabit.

Mark