A perspective on how ATM lost control

  • Authors:
  • Simon Crosby;Sean Rooney;Rebecca Isaacs;Herbert Bos

  • Affiliations:
  • CPLANE Inc;IBM Research, Switzerland;Microsoft Research, UK;LIACS, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Contrary to the initial high expectations, ATM failed to become the universal network technology covering all services and running from the desktop to the backbone. This paper tries to identify the technological problems that contributed to this failure.