Running head: ATM
The Many Faces of Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
ATM Objectives 3
Basic Concepts in ATM 4
ATM Standards 7
ATM Switching 11
Switching Networks 12
Performance Issues 12
ATM Applications 14
Consumer Applications 14
Commercial Applications 16
Summary 17
References 19
The Many Faces of Asynchronous Transfer Mode
Introduction
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) has been accepted universally as the transfer mode of choice for Broadband Integrated Services Digital Networks (BISDN). It can handle any kind of information such as voice, data, image, text and video in an integrated manner. ATM provides a good bandwidth flexibility and can be used efficiently from desktop computers to local area, metropolitan are network and wide area networks (LAN, MAN and WAN). It is a connection- oriented packet switching technique in which all packets are of fixed length.
Although ATM is a technology, most users......
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