Editing Asynchronous Transfer Mode (section)

== Deployment ==
[[File:ForeRunnerLE 25 ATM switch (1).jpg|thumb|ATM switch by FORE systems]]
ATM became popular with telephone companies and many computer makers in the 1990s. However, even by the end of the decade, the better [[price–performance ratio]] of [[Internet Protocol]]-based products was competing with ATM technology for integrating real-time and bursty network traffic.<ref name="bellheads">{{Cite news |title= Netheads vs Bellheads |author= Steve Steinberg |magazine= Wired |date= October 1996 |volume= 4 |number= 10 |url= https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.10/atm.html |access-date=24 September 2011 }}</ref> Additionally, among cable companies using ATM there often would be discrete and competing management teams for telephony, video on demand, and broadcast and digital video reception, which adversely impacted efficiency.<ref name="multichannel-march-2000">{{cite news |last1=Baumgartner |first1=Jeff |title=Land Rush Reaches the Headend |url=https://archive.org/details/multichannel-news-international-march-2000/page/n33/mode/2up |access-date=30 November 2024 |work=Multichannel News International |publisher=Cahners |date=1 March 2000 |page=35}}</ref> Companies such as [[FORE Systems]] focused on ATM products, while other large vendors such as [[Cisco Systems]] provided ATM as an option.<ref>{{Cite news |title= What's in store for FORE? |page= 12 |work= Network World |date= 16 September 1996 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=IxgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12 |access-date=24 September 2011 }}</ref> After the burst of the [[dot-com bubble]], some still predicted that "ATM is going to dominate".<ref>{{Cite news |title= Optical Ethernet firms brave stormy industry seas |page= 14 |work= Network World |date= 7 May 2001 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=GBwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA14 |access-date=24 September 2011 }}</ref> However, in 2005 the [[ATM Forum]], which had been the trade organization promoting the technology, merged with groups promoting other technologies, and eventually became the [[Broadband Forum]].<ref>{{Cite web |title= About the Broadband Forum: Forum History |url= http://www.broadband-forum.org/about/forumhistory.php |access-date= 24 September 2011  |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20111009003434/http://www.broadband-forum.org/about/forumhistory.php |archive-date= 9 October 2011}}</ref>