By John P. Cosmas (auth.), Demetres Kouvatsos (eds.)
ISBN-10: 0306470233
ISBN-13: 9780306470233
ISBN-10: 0792378512
ISBN-13: 9780792378518
Information Highways are extensively regarded as the subsequent iteration of excessive velocity conversation platforms. those highways may be in line with rising Broadband built-in companies electronic Networks (B-ISDN), which - at the very least in precept - are expected to aid not just all of the sorts of networking functions recognized this present day but additionally destiny functions which aren't as but understood totally or maybe expected. therefore, B-ISDNs liberate networking methods from the constraints which the communications medium has imposed traditionally. The operational generality stems from the flexibility of Asynchronous move Mode (ATM) that is the move mode followed by way of ITU-T for broadband public ISDN in addition to vast region inner most ISDN. A move mode which supplies the transmission, multiplexing and switching middle that lies on the foundations of a communique community. ATM is designed to combine current and destiny voice, audio, picture and information companies. in addition, ATM goals to minimise the complexity of switching and buffer administration, to optimise intermediate node processing and buffering and to sure transmission delays. those layout pursuits are met at excessive transmission speeds by means of preserving the fundamental unit of ATM transmission - the ATM mobile - brief and of mounted length.