You honestly think ATM is going to take over Gigabit? ATM had its chance in
the LAN and lost. OC-12 is way more expensive than Gigabit, plus the hassle
of LANE. In addition, ATM probing equipment is much more expensive than
packet based equipment. Although I hate 3Com, the invaded the market a few
yeras ago with their Corebuilder 7000 Cell based switches and they basically
sucked the big one. There have been numerous clients who have migrated away
from the CB7000 platform and changed vendors rather than buying into 3com's
CB9000 Gigabit switch, which is ultimately why they left the Enterprise
business. ATM on the WAN is still growing rapidly, but ATM on the LAN is
dead. The only customers still purchased equipment for LANE are those who
don't have the budget to migrate their existing equipment to Gigabit.
----- Original Message -----
> ATM isn't real popular in the LAN environment
> because of gigabit ethernet. However I'll think
> you may see this change sometime in the future.
>
> Regards Ken
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