Its proponents dreamed of a world dominated by ATM, the only technology able to stretch across both the LAN and the WAN, creating a single, unifying network delivering voice, video and data over the same wire to desktops everywhere.

• 其支持者梦想世界将由ATM支配，即唯一的能同时伸展到局域网和广域网上的技术，建立单一的、统一网络，在同一线路上向位于任何地方的桌面系统传送话音、视频图像和数据。