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in my earlier post i said, in a bit-rate spacific atm network you do NOT share bandwidth. which is completely true. and funny you should say you don't magically sqeeze out more bandwidth, because that is exactly what atm does. rather than a tcp/ip connect, once data is in the atm network (this would be post-dslam, which would be the telco switching hardware you speak of) packets are handled, to a reasonable degree, in complete unison. ie, evenly sized packets routed through a constant, predifined path. in this way, bandwidth is used much more effectively than other modes of transfer. you do still run out of bandwidth at some point, but atm allows you to make better use of what is available. dsl and cable are both just isp connections, both *could* be setup to work either way, but cable would require a massive hardware revamp (both cable and equipment) to be a non-bandwidth sharing connection.
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