From:	"Brian W. Allison" <bwa550s@***.SMSU.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Ahhhhhhh replay
Date:	Fri, 15 Apr 1994 12:02:54 -0500

On Thu, 14 Apr 1994, Mark Imbriaco wrote:
> 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.

The work I did was on the periphreal of a group who set up an ATM WAN.
Target of ~100 Gigabits/second. I belive they were successful.

How so do you claim it's synonymous w/Ethernet? It's point-to-point, not
broadcast (as Ethernet is).


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