Blog Archive: January 1970
ATM - is it just me?
On February 1st, 1997 In Technology
I never understood ATM. I must not be part of the target audience.
Now that 100base-T is here, I get it even less. I heard a speaker
from the ADSL forum lately who claimed that ADSL would eventually
be all ATM. That does not make sense to me.
Sometimes I wonder if the phone companies of the world have been
tricked into
To 100base-T or not 100base-T?
On February 1st, 1997 In Technology
I've been debating moving some servers over to 100base-T. The idea
is to put them behind a switch that will clean up the network
and aggregate high use servers on a high speed link.
Adapter cards are easy to find these days. It's getting hard to buy
a card from 3Com which does not support 100Base-T. Switches, however,
are a bit more