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At 2:34 on 31 Oct 96 , Rex Ballard wrote, in part:

> Worse yet, the ATM backbones cannot distinguish frame-relay traffic
> and will therefore be uncertain whether the traffic is high priority
> or low priority.  In some cases we are already trying to share
> bandwidth with video links across corporate networks, telephone
> links, and real time data feeds such as quotes.

As I understand it, Bellcore's plan is to have software and hardware
that opens up a point-to-point ISDN-quality line directly between
the two ISPs involved. Even that has its limits, of course.
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