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From xDSL to 3G wireless, one technology is at the heart of today's most important broadband networks: ATM. This book brings together the most comprehensive, complete description of ATM standards and practical solutions for the key issues facing ATM network implementers and managers. Othmar Kyas and Gregan Crawford begin by reviewing the evolution of ATM technology, the problems it has been designed to solve, and the latest generation of ATM applications. Next, they systematically address the elements of ATM networks, covering all ATM variants and the latest ATM standards. ATM Networks then offers specific guidance on ATM network design, testing, and troubleshooting, as well as detailed techniques for protecting ATM networks against hacker attacks. For all network professionals designing, implementing, managing, maintaining, or supporting ATM networks in a wide range of service provider and enterprise environments.
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The complete, up-to-date ATM guide for every network planner, designer, implementer, and manager.
- ATM network planning, design, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, and security
- New standards, including Loop Emulation Service over AAL-2 and frame-based ATM
- Test and selection criteria for ATM network components and cable infrastructure
- ATM network operation, including traffic control, performance parameters, and testing
- Detailed coverage of ATM security standards and techniques
Despite the arrival of Packet over SONET/SDH, one technology is at the heart of today's most important broadband and wireless networks: ATM. ATM Networks combines a complete and authoritative description of ATM standards with practical solutions for the key challenges facing ATM network implementers and managers. Clear, concise, and fully up to date, it covers every element and variant of current ATM networks, offering specific best practices for design, testing, deployment, troubleshooting, and security. Coverage includes:
- How ATM evolved to become the world's universal platform for networked communications
- Up-to-the-minute standards coverage, including ATM over Plastic Optical Fiber, Loop Emulation Service over AAL-2, frame-based ATM, and secure ATM
- ATM network planning, design, and migration techniques
- Test and selection criteria for ATM network components
- In-depth coverage of security and cable infrastructure issues
- ATM network operation: traffic control mechanisms, performance parameters, and test methods
Key information is included for network designers, implementers, and managers, including ATM UNI and NNI signaling protocol messages and information elements, parameters and limitations for high speed cabling systems, and ATM Forum contact information.
OTHMAR KYAS is Product Marketing Section Manager for the Network Systems Test Division of Agilent Technologies. With over eleven years at Agilent (formerly Hewlett-Packard), Kyas has been a leader in developing Agilent's telecommunications products in the ATM, WAN, and LAN marketplaces. He holds an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology, Vienna.
GREGAN CRAWFORD is Product Marketing Manager for the Network Systems Test Division of Agilent Technologies. He has been involved with ATM and ATM testing since the mid 1980s. From 1993 to 1999, he was the first chair of the ATM Forum's Test Working Group and a member of the ATM Forum's Technical Committee management team. He is currently Agilent's primary representative for the ATM Forum and has contributed to several books on ATM.
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- ISBN 10 0442020007
- ISBN 13 9780442020002
- BindingPaperback
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