[Scott Dorsey]

Les Cargill wrote:
It's more likely an ATM switch, although this is changing. ATM
service is indistinguishable from circuit switched with respect
to service quality and reliability.

ATM is definitely a cool thing and does allow fixed bandwidth connections
to be made (which effectively is kind of circuit-switched). It actually
scales well down to the desktop too, though it never seems to have caught
on down there. I'd take an ATM/SONET local loop over PPPOE any time,
and it would FINALLY means we could dump the use of ISDN for medium quality
audio circuits.
--scott
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