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Ground-breaking efforts are afoot to one day extend the benefits of Asynchronous Transfer Mode to remote corners of the globe.
AT&T, Kokusai Denshin Denwa Company, Ltd. (KDD) of Japan and Telstra OTC Australia are planning to begin a technical trial this month for transmitting ATM traffic over satellite links--paths that have a much farther reach than the world's cabled infrastructure.
Such links could be valuable to international concerns such as oil exploration firms and news organizations, which have outposts in remote parts of the world, where cabling is unreliable or nonexistent, analysts said.
The idea would be to speed the expansion of AT&T's core, fiber-based InterSpan ATM network service to more locations. Traffic chopped into cells for transmission could be carried by a mix of fiber and satellite links, said Joel Boroff, the trial project leader...