The Deutsche Bundespost Telekom will supply 10 towns with a Switched Multi-megabit Data Service by the end of the year, Computerwoche reports: users in Munich and Stuttgart will have immediate access to the new Datex-M service following trials that ran late last year, and Hamburg, Hannover, Berlin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt and Nurenburg wil follow; as such the project represents the first large-scale commercial implementation of the IEEE 802.6 standard in Europe; but Telekom has gone further than most by letting its users use the protocol’s speech and video capabilities, and the state firm is touting the network’s 53-byte cell structure as an easy way for customers to migrate to Asynchronous Transfer Mode capability in the future.
