The Emerging Gigabit Environment and the Role of Local ATM The key to affordable gigabit networks is the presence of affordable 150 Mb/s networks and applications on every desktop.
Bryan Lyles, Daniel C. Swinehart · 1992
raditionally, the speed and capacities of data communication networks are increased incrementally, in response to incremental increases in network traffic. Existing applications can expand in scope and performance as the networks grow faster, but are unlikely to justify more than incremental improvement. We see this trend today in the market