From: schily@schily.net (Joerg Schilling)
Subject: [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 14, Issue 63
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:27:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <587e29ce.GfQnecHaHo8aHA3S%schily@schily.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170116164421.GJ6647@mcvoy.com>
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Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> The gist of my talk was that ATM was a joke. I had an ATM card (on loan
> from Sun Networking), I think it was 155 Mbit card. I also had an
> ethernet card that I had bought at Fry's on my way to the talk.
> The ATM card cost $4000. The ethernet card cost $49 IIRC.
>
> The point I was making was that ATM was doomed. This was at the time in
> history when every company was making long bets on ATM, they all thought
> it was the future; well, all meaning the execs had been convinced.
I cannot speak for the US, but ATM was rather popular in the European
telecommunication in the mid 1990s.
I was e.g. in a EU research project, where I wrote IP-Multicast enhancements
for the FORE ATM driver to support video multicast. From what I know, there may
still have been ATM in the core network of German Telekom when they started
their IP-TV offer that is based on IP-multicast.
So people tried to work around the problems in ATM for a while until ATM was
given up.
Jörg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-17 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2017-01-16 16:00 ` Doug McIlroy
2017-01-16 16:22 ` Marc Rochkind
2017-01-16 16:44 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-16 16:52 ` Marc Rochkind
2017-01-16 19:17 ` Steve Johnson
2017-01-16 19:21 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-16 19:57 ` Ken Thompson
2017-01-16 23:41 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-01-16 23:45 ` Brantley Coile
2017-01-17 4:07 ` Jason Stevens
2017-01-17 5:22 ` William Corcoran
2017-01-17 11:43 ` Jason Stevens
2017-01-17 14:27 ` Joerg Schilling [this message]
2017-01-17 14:21 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-16 19:46 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-17 0:30 ` Brad Spencer
2017-01-17 15:32 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-18 14:29 ` Paul Ruizendaal
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