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The University of Central England has invested Pounds 1.5 million in an IBM asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) network which will bring high quality (MPEG2) video and multimedia to 1,500 desktop computers at UCE's nine sites in Birmingham. The original idea was to use ATM only for the network backbone, but the all-ATM solution worked out cheaper than alternatives using Token Ring or switched Ethernet technology.