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November 14, 2025November 14, 2025

ATM: The god that wasn’t

If you’re not a network engineer and my generation or older, “ATM” means Automatic Teller Machine. If you’re younger, you don’t know what that means because you’ve never paid for anything in cash. If you’re a network engineer of a certain age, ATM means something else: Asynchronous Transfer Mode. ATM was a potential god technology […]

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