If you believe in a view that everything will be IP, then multimedia will converge over IP also. So it's clear that ATM has a role. I have never been a believer in ATM to the desktop. I don't subscribe to that view. The more bandwidth you have, the better, for lots of applications.
Multimedia is clearly something that drives bandwidth.
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