Publisher's 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).
