Agreed. However, while one technology may be more economically efficient today, it certainly may not tomorrow. Also, economic comparisons need to also take into account functionality (or lack thereof), administrative & maintenance overhead, etc., not just monthly recurring transport costs. - paul At 02:50 PM 7/23/96 -0500, Tim Salo wrote:

I think a more interesting measure of the value of ATM versus other wide-area technologies is some sort of measure of throughput per dollar.

-tjs