The ATM Handbook

Format: Hardcover, 297 pages
ISBN: 0-933217-63-3
Price: $63.95

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FEATURES

The ATM Handbook is an indispensable resource for gaining the perspective of leading experts and information executives on a range of ATM issues facing the communications industry.

• Draws on the expertise of industry professionals to produce a broad-based assessment of critical industry developments
• Explores complex technological specifications through detailed figures and equations
• Offers professional and academic perspectives on the significance of ATM within the telecommunications industry
• Presents an overview of the standards for the ATM physical-layer interface
• Describes the technological advantages of ATM over competitive technologies
• Provides state-of-the-art information on switching and the integration of IP and ATM transport for multimedia traffic
• Offers authoritative assessments of the standards for LANs and WANs

A SAMPLE OF THE ISSUES ADDRESSED

• How are switching and traffic scheduling related to ATM architecture?
• What are the capabilities of ATM to scale in terms of capacity, topology, distance, and geography?
• How has switching technology evolved from circuit-switched–based telephony to broadband packet switching?
• How can AAL–2 be implemented, particularly by VLSI components with manageable complexity?
• How is traffic control handled in ATM networks?
• What are the security advantages of ATM over traditional networks?
• How are QoS issues resolved?
• How does ATM management handle call admission, resource scheduling, congestion control, and traffic shaping and policing?
• How are performance metrics selected and defined?
• What are the relevant schemes for traffic management?
• How is ATM able to support high-quality converged voice, video, and data networks?
• How can ATM emulate legacy LANs?
• What understanding is necessary for multiprotocol integration with ATM?
• What are the current integration models, and how may we derive integration schemes?
• How do the standards for ATM differ in stability from other technology standards?
• What are the opportunities for mobility support in ATM?
• What are the possible protocols and architectures for wireless services?
• How should the integration of voice traffic with data over ATM be implemented?
• What are the algorithms for providing video-on-demand services?
• How is one ATM backbone able to support many separate virtual networks?
• What are the costs and benefits of video transmission over ATM?