Why Two ATM Modes? Two modes exist for geographic scalability and efficiency. LANE emulates a local-area network and creates many virtual circuits to support each LAN Emulation Client (LEC) in each Emulated LAN (ELAN). Each LEC maintains four virtual circuits to retain ELAN membership. Two are point-to-point connections (one to the LAN Emulation Server [LES] and one to the … [Read more...]