The ABC’s team was very knowledgeable and did well on needs analysis to understand basic network requirements without being experts on the engineering issues related to technical network design. The team discussed a variety of network technology alternatives in terms of their capabilities, expected costs, and the expected fitness with the needs of the company. For example, the team seriously considered using satellite technology as a WAN solution. But because the bandwidth was shared and some of ABC’s data traffic was bursty with large payloads, satellite was only considered for disaster recovery. Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) technology, a special type of packet switching network that delivers small fixed-size data packet across a network, was also considered, but was not considered appropriate due to various reasons. For instance, ATM works well with live video and audio due to its low latency and very high quality of service. However, ATM technology has largely been implemented by large carriers for their wide area network cores, thus making this technology less feasible both technologically and economically.