ATM Networks - Softcover

Kyas, Othmar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1850321280 ISBN 13: 9781850321286

Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA, 1995

Synopsis

The emergence of multimedia applications, the trend towards client/server computing environments, and the increasing number of MIPS (Multimedia Information Presentation System) on the desktop has driven the demand for a flexible, high performance networking technology, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). ATM combines the benefits of two well established communications technologies: traditional packet switching and Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) and is the first technology that can be deployed in both wide and local area networks. This text provides a survey of the state of broadband-ISDN technology (B-ISDN), providing comprehensive coverage of the standards of B-ISDN and ATM. It begins by outlining the origin and evolution of ATM, discussing its current status for both local and wide area networks. The volume then moves on to provide an outline of B-ISDN ATM architecture, adaption layer protocols and a comprehensive guide to Synchronous Digital Hardware (SDH).

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cengage Learning EMEA
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 1850321280
• ISBN 13: 9781850321286
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 346