From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: schily@schily.net (Joerg Schilling) Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:27:26 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 14, Issue 63 In-Reply-To: <20170116164421.GJ6647@mcvoy.com> References: <201701161600.v0GG00XA080461@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> <20170116164421.GJ6647@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: <587e29ce.GfQnecHaHo8aHA3S%schily@schily.net> Larry McVoy 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 -- EMail:joerg at schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/