An excellent reference for introducing communications engineers to high-speed systems/products, and helping network analysts understand the implementation issues involved in setting up an ATM network.
Figure 1.1: The broadband-integrated services distributed network standard (Source: Asatani, K., Standardization of Network Technologies and Services, IEEE Communications Magazine, July 1994, p. 87. 1994 IEEE.)
Chapter 2: The ATM Standard
Figure 2.1: ATM cell structure. (Source: Vetter, R.J., ATM Concepts, Architectures, and Protocols, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 38, No. 2, Feb. 1995, p. 34.)
Figure 2.2: ATM layers and sublayers. (Source: Marks, D. R., ATM from A to Z: A Definitive Glossary for Enterprise Network Managers, Data Communications, Dec. 1994, p. 113. 1994 The McGraw-Hill Companies. All rights reserved.)
Figure 2.3: Service classes in B-ISDN. (Source: Vetter, R.J., ATM Concepts, Architectures, and Protocols, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 38, No. 2, Feb. 1995, p. 34.)
Figure 2.4: ATM network hierarchy. (Source: Saito, H., Teletraffic Technologies in ATM Networks, Norwood, MA: Artech House, 1994, p. 5.)
Figure 2.5: Connection admission control. (Source: Alles, A., ATM Internetworking, San Jose, CA: Cisco Systems, May 1995, p. 15.)
Figure 2.6: Traffic characteristics of various services. (Source: Saito, H., Teletraffic Technologies in ATM Networks, Norwood, MA: Artech House, 1994, p. 2.)
Figure 2.7: ATM address formats. (Source: Goralski, W. J., Introduction to ATM Networking, New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1995, p. 209. 1995 The McGraw-Hill Companies. Reprinted with permission.)
Figure 2.8: ATM logical network interfaces. (Source: Johnson, J. T., The ATM Circus Gets a Ringmaster, Data Communications, March 21, 1993, p. 43. 1993 The McGraw Hill Companies. All rights...
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