Abstract
ATM emerged commercially in the early 1990s. It was designed to provide a differentiated QOS at speeds upto 10 Gbps for both Real Time and non Real Time Applications. However very few applications then could utilize the convergence friendly features of ATM. The turn of the 90s saw a breed of technologies being developed. Terabit Routers, Network processors and Optical switches ushered in a new era in broadband communication technology. Meanwhile, GMPLS was trying to unify all networks with a common protocol for end to end unified provisioning. With all these contending technologies in the fray, the slowdown in early 2001 gave us time to pause, reflect and eventually, gave these technologies time to rethink. This paper analyzes these technologies and assesses with the help of some market surveys the future of ATM and where it will fit in the broadband networking world upto the mid 2000s.

Authors Jayasurya Venugopalan

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