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- The ATM Forum was started in October of 1991 by a consortium of
four computer and telecommunication vendors. Since its inception, it
has seen unprecedented growth, and today (as of June 1994), has over
500 members. Today's membership is made up of network equipment
providers, semiconductor manufacturers, service providers, carriers
and, most recently, end users.
- The Forum is not a Standards body. The ATM Forum is a consortium
of companies that writes specifications to accelerate the definition
of ATM technology. These specifications are then passed up to ITU-T
(Formerly the CCITT) for approval. The ITU-T standard body fully
recognizes the ATM Forum as a credible working group.
Mahesh Subramanyan, Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University, mahesh@npac.syr.edu