Internet II is coming...

Thu Oct 17 13:32:52 UTC 1996

> > data, after SONET, ATM, IP and TCP overheads.
> > 
> > Perhaps, I missed your point...
> 
> Explicit: 6meg is not very fast for an uplink speed for a whole
>   ISP.
> Implicit: There seems to be a lot of: "It's ATM so it must be 
>     fast" going around.  This conclusion does not follow.
> 
> regards,
> fletcher 

To move IP packets, it will always be faster without ATM than with ATM
at any given linerate. The rest is pricebstructure, tarrifs, politics
and marketing.

--Peter