ATM combines the strengths of time-division multiplexing (TDM)---whose fixed time slots are used by telephone companies to deliver voice without distortion---with the strengths of packet-switching data networks---whose variable size data units are used by computer networks, such as the Internet, to deliver data efficiently. While building on the strengths of TDM, ATM avoids the weaknesses of TDM (which wastes bandwidth by transmitting the fixed time slots even when no one is speaking) and PSDNs (which cannot accommodate time-sensitive traffic, such as voice and video, because PSDNs are designed for transmitting bursty data). By using fixed sized cells, ATM combines the isochronicity of TDM with the efficiency of PSDN.
Frame
Relay provides a packet-switching data
communications capability that is used across the interface between user devices
(for example, routers, bridges, host machines) and network equipment (for
example, switching nodes)
Network Buyer Guide provides
information on the computer storage and networking industry. It features a
searchable database of products, links to vendor websites, a library of white
papers, press releases, online product presentations, and more. FREE listing to
vendors.
Site Preparation for Networking Installation
Checklist, Power Consumption, Cables, Physical Location, Air-conditioning, Telecommunication Links, etc.
Internet resources
100 VG Anylan Consortium
The 100 VG AnyLAN Consortium tests
products for interoperatibility and conformance to the 100 VG AnyLAN standard
and also publishes a newsletter about AnyLAN technology.
http://www.iol.unh.edu/consortiums/vganylan/vg_consortium.html
ACC Systems ISDN Primer
Learn the basics about ISDN and its
various components. Sponsored by ACC systems, a manufacturer of communications
products.
http://www.interforce.com/technology/isdnprimer.html.
ACC's glossary of networking terms is at
www.interforce.com/technology/glossary.html.
American Electronics Association (AEA)
Trade group representing
the electronics, software, and information technology industry. Founded in 1943
with 25 member companies, the organization now maintains a membership of 3000
firms. http://www.aeanet.org/
American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Online
This site has
been designed to provide the Institute's members and customers with convenient
access to information on the ANSI Federation and the latest national and
international standards-related activities. ANSI Online also offers links to a
number of our member's web sites and to other key national and international
organizations. http://www.ansi.org/
ANSI T1 Committee
Committee T1 is sponsored by the Alliance for
Telecommunications Industry Solutions and accredited by the American National
Standards Institute to create network interconnections and interoperability
standards for the United States. http://www.t1.org/
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) Forum
The ADSL Forum
addresses technical and market issues for ADSL access network systems. The web
site presents tutorial information and various tracts on overall market
structures and forces.
http://www.sbexpos.com/sbexpos/associations/adsl/home.html
ATM at Work Maintained by Access Media, this site includes case studies, a hypertext version of a Fortune magazine article on ATM, animated tutorials, and more. http://www.atm.at-work.com/
ATM Forum
The body that sets the standards for ATM. This is their
official site. Come here for updates on ATM standards, information on the ATM
standards committee and other ATM information.
Main page: http://www.atmforum.com/
To order
off-line technical documents:
http://www.atmforum.com/atmforum/spec_order.html
White papers: http://www.atmforum.com/atmforum/whitepapers.html
Acronym handbook: http://www.atmforum.com/atmforum/acronym_index.html
Educational module, About ATM: http://www.atmforum.com/atmforum/atm_basics/notes1.html
ATM KnowledgeBase
General information about ATM technology.
Information on ATM standards as well as information regarding ATM deployment in
various industries.
http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/dpk/ATM_Knowledgebase/ATM-technology.html
ATM Links -- Trinity College Dublin, Networks and Telecommunications
Research Group
A growing list of useful links, plus some valuable
tutorials on ATM.
http://ganges.cs.tcd.ie/ntrg/atm.html
ATM overview: http://ganges.cs.tcd.ie/4ba2/atm/index.html
Tutorial: http://juggler.lanl.gov/lanp/atm.tutorial.html
ATM resources
A collection of 230 useful links to ATM related
information and WWW sites, including directories of chips with ATM functionality
and ATM network interface cards. The site is maintained by Christian Paetz of
the University of Chemnitz http://www.infotech.tu-chemnitz.de/~paetz/atm/index.html
Black Box Glossary of Networking Terms
Wondering what all those
acronyms mean? This is our favorite place to find out. Black Box also has a
large catalog of networking products.
http://www.blackbox.com/bb/refer/glossary.html/tig2c8a.html
Broadcast ISDN User Guide and Directory
"Everything you ever
wanted to know about ISDN."
Broadcast ISDN Glossary:
http://www.sms.co.uk/isdn/glossary.htm
Cell-Relay Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
An excellent building
block of Cell Relay (ATM) knowledge. Maintained by Carl
Symborkski who can
be reached by internet mail at carl@umd5.umd.edu.
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/cell-relay-faq/faq.html
Cell Relay Retreat
An indispensible ATM resource.
Main page:
http://cell-relay.indiana.edu/cell-relay/index.html
ATM dictionary: http://cell-relay.indiana.edu/cell-relay/FAQ/dictionary/dictionary.html
ATM acronym list: http://cell-relay.indiana.edu/cell-relay/FAQ/ATM-Acronyms.html
Cisco Systems http://www.cisco.com/
Computer and Communications Entry Page
Maintained by the Advanced
Telecommunications Program, Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory. The
section on Standards has direct links to info on ATM,
Ethernet, FDDI, SMDS,
and much more.
http://www.cmpcmm.com/cc/
Corning Optical Fiber Information Center
The industry's most
extensive information resource on optical fiber. Includes a
downloadable
tutorial on fiberoptics.
http://www.usa.net/corning-fiber/
Cross-Industry Working Team
A multi-industry coalition committed
to defining the architecture and key technical
requirements for a powerful,
sustainable national information infrastructure (NII).
http://www.cnri.reston.va.us:3000/XIWT/public.html
Dan Kegel's ISDN Page
A wonderful starting point for information
about ISDN. Links to various RBOCs as
well as information regarding ISDN
deployment, vendors, and technology.
http://www.alumni.caltech.edu/~dank/isdn/
Dan Kegel's Fast Ethernet Page
Dan Kegel's collection of
information about Fast Ethernet (100BaseT) technology,
standards, and
vendors.
http://alumni.caltech.edu/~dank/fe/
Data Communications Home Page (Randy Baker)
Dedicated to
continually identifying educational resources (among all the marketing
materials) that will help you learn about a technology or a concept.
Students and
professionals alike should find the links in these pages
beneficial for research or for
personal development. The site is maintained
by Randy Baker who occassionly
teaches at Georgian College.
http://www.georcoll.on.ca/staff/rbaker/idccbt.htm
Decisys
This networking consultancy's site includes many documents
in a searchable archive
and an annotated list of white papers on routing and
switching, quality of service, the
business case for ATM, virtual LANs, and
more
http://www.decisys.com/default
Desktop ATM25 Alliance
http://www.atm25.com/
Desktop Video Conferencing Product Survey
Hundreds of products for
video conferencing are listed, along with additional
video-related links.
The site is maintained by Kathy Hewitt at North Carolina State
University.
http://www3.ncsu.edu/dox/video/survey.html
Federal Standard 1037, Glossary of Telecommunication Terms
http://www.its.bldrdoc.gov/projects/1037c/1037.html
Ethernet Page
An extensive collection of information about
Ethernet (IEEE 802.3) local area
network technology, including both the
original 10-Mbps system and the 100-Mbps
Fast Ethernet system.
http://wwwhost.ots.utexas.edu/ethernet/
Fast Ethernet Consortium
The Fast Ethernet Consortium tests Fast
Ethernet (IEEE802.3u) products and software from both an interoperability and
conformance perspective. Find out about their results and their structure.
http://www.iol.unh.edu/consortiums/fe/fast_ethernet_consortium.html
FDDI Consortium (University of New Hampshire)
The FDDI Consortium
develops standards and disseminates information related to FDDI technology.
http://www.iol.unh.edu/consortiums/fddi/fddi_charter_etc.html
Frame Relay FAQ
From the newsgroup comp.dcom.isdn
http://web.syr.edu/~jmwobus/comfaqs/faq-comp.dcom.frame-relay
Frame Relay Forum
The Frame Relay Forum is an association of
corporate members comprising vendors, carriers, users and consultants committed
to the implementation of Frame Relay in accordance with national and
international standards. The group was formed in 1991and maintains chapters in
North America, Europe, Australia/New Zealand, and Japan.
http://frame-relay.indiana.edu/index.html
or http://www.frforum.com/index.html
Overview of frame relay: http://www.frforum.com/4000/4000index.html
Glossary:
http://frame-relay.indiana.edu/frame-relay/4000/4003.html
Frame relay
specifications: http://frame-relay.indiana.edu/5000/5000index.html
Frame Relay Resources (Motorola ISG)
An exhaustive list of Frame
Relay material, hosted by Motorola's Information Systems Group
http://www.mot.com/MIMS/ISG/tech/frame-relay/resources.html
Gary Zaret's High Bandwidth Web Page
A useful list of links
compiled by someone who claims not to be a professional in the field. (Yeah,
right.)
http://plainfield.bypass.com/~gzaret/hiband.html
Gigabit Ethernet Alliance
The Gigabit Ethernet Alliance (GEA) is
an open forum whose purpose is to promote
industry cooperation in the
development of Gigabit Ethernet.
http://www.gigabit-ethernet.org/
GSM World, Webring of a list of GSM websites www.flashback.net/~lesve/gsmring.html
GSM related links http://gallery.uunet.be/eni/related.htm
Henning Schulzrinne's Research Interests
Information on IP
multicast, ATM protocol, real-time transport protocol (RTP), and other issues,
maintained by the head of the Internet Real-Time Lab at Columbia.
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/research/
High Bandwidth Web Page
Links on DSL, ISDN, ATM, frame relay,
gigabit Ethernet, and other topics. The site is maintained by Specialty Access
Consulting
http://www.specialty.com/hiband/index.html
High-Speed Interconnect (HSI) Project at CERN
Good basic info on
ATM, HIPPI, SCI, etc.
http://www.cern.ch/HSI/Welcome.html
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
The
standards body's home page. Information about standards and the standards
committees.
http://www.ieee.org/
Interactive Network Design Manual from CMP Media
Essays on
troubleshooting Ethernet and Token Ring, TCP/IP firewalls, upgrading backbones,
building intranets, and more. Includes a list of additional links also available
as a downloadable, http://techweb.cmp.com/nc/netdesign/series.htm
International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
The ISO is a
worldwide federation of national standards bodies from some 100 countries, one
from each country. ISO is a non-governmental organization established in 1947.
The mission of ISO is to promote the development of standardization and related
activities in the world with a view to facilitating the international exchange
of goods and services, and to developing cooperation in the spheres of
intellectual, scientific, technological, and economic activity.
http://www.iso.ch/
ISO's links to other
standards-information Web servers:
http://www.iso.ch/infoe/stbodies.html
International Telecommunications Union (ITU)
The ITU,
headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, is an international organization within
which governments and the private sector coordinate global telecom networks and
services.http://info.itu.ch/
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
The Internet Engineering
Task Force is the protocol engineering and development arm of the Internet. The
IETF is a large open international community of network designers, operators,
vendors, and researchers concerned with the evolution of the Internet
architecture and the smooth operation of the Internet. It is open to any
interested individual.
http://www.ietf.org/
Internet Society
The Internet Society is a non-governmental
International organization for global cooperation and coordination for the
Internet and its internetworking technologies and applications. The Society's
individual and organizational members are bound by a common stake in maintaining
the viability and global scaling of the Internet.
http://info.isoc.org/
Internet Standards
How the standards that make the Internet
possible are developed.
http://info.isoc.org/standards/index.html
InterNIC Directory and Database Services
Internet documentation
(RFC's, FYI's, etc.) and IETF Information. Info on on-line X.500
implementations, directories of Internet resources, and more. Provided by
AT&T Corp. in cooperation with the National Science Foundation
http://www.internic.net/ds/dspg01.html
InterNIC Registration Services
How to register domain names,
network numbers, ASNs, etc. Includes FAQs, templates, fee information. Provided
by Network Solutions, Inc., in cooperation with the National Science Foundation
http://rs.internic.net/rs-internic.html
Introduction to Auto-Negotiation
The auto-negotiation system for
automatically configuring a Fast Ethernet hub, described by Bill Bunch of
National Semiconductor.
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/misc/NWay.html
IP Multicast Inititative
The IP Multicast Initiative (IPMI) is a
multi-vendor forum and service subscription package. Through aggressive
education, marketing, PR and technology programs, IPMI is accelerating the
deployment of IP Multicast on intranets and the Internet; providing strategic
business, market, and technology information to its members; stimulating a new
market and creating business opportunities for its members.
http://www.ipmulticast.com/
ISDN Informationbase
Maintained by student volunteers at Brussels
Free University.
http://igwe.vub.ac.be/~svendk/
James Sterbenz ATM Critique and Tutorial Page
A
more-pessimistic-than-most analysis of what it takes to marry ATM to IP, plus a
100-page tutorial on ATM.
http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/~jpgs/research/atm/atm.html
National Coordinating Office for High Performance Computing and
Communications (HPCC)
In FY 1996 the HPCC Program is a $1.1 billion
effort that is planned and implemented by 12 Federal organizations. HPCC R&D
is conducted at U.S. academic institutions, corporations, and Federal R&D
laboratories; a variety of funding mechanisms are used.
http://www.hpcc.gov/
National Telecommunications & Information Administration
Info
on spectrum management, telecom research and technology, public policy, grants
and assistance.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/
Network Bibliography
Searchable index of 29,000 references to
journal articles, conference papers, and
technical reports. The database
covers performance evaluation, computer networks,
computer supported
cooperative work, network security, digital signal processing and
related
topics. http://rockmaster.fokus.gmd.de/netbib/
Noritoshi Demizu's List of Internetworking Resources
Sections on
high-performance switches, satellite communications, multicasting and the
MBone, and much more. Maintained by an engineer at the Sony Computer Science
Laboratory.
http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/person/demizu/inet/
Novell Incorporated
Extensive information regarding Novell
NetWare, its protocols and networking.
http://www.novell.com/
Quick Reference Guides to 100-Mbps Fast Ethernet
Charles
Spurgeon's tutorials on Ethernet, 100-Mbps media, auto-negotiation,
multi-segment configuration, and more.
http://wwwhost.ots.utexas.edu/ethernet/descript-100quickref.html
Raj Jain's Page
Selected references on networking, including
Professor Jain's lectures in HTML and
live via the MBone.
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~jain/
SMDS Interest Group (SIG)
http://www.cerf.net/smds/sig/index.html
Special Interest Group on Data Communications (SIGCOMM) of the Association
for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM)
SIGCOMM is a professional forum for
the discussion of issues in the field of data communications and computer
networks. Current emphases are on the architectures, protocols, design,
analysis, measurement, maintenance, regulatory policy, standards, applications,
and social impact of computer networks and computer communications systems.
http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/
Strategic Networks Switched Technology Evaluations
Reviews of
various switch products. Products range from switched Ethernet ports to
ATM
products.
http://www.snci.com/stev.htm
Systems Research Group of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory
Research projects related to networks, operating systems, and multimedia
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/Research/SRG/
Technical Committee on Gigabit Networking (TCGN)
Established by
the IEEE Communications society.
http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/pub/ieee-tcgn/tcgn.html
Telecom Information Resources on the Internet (University of Michigan)
There are now over 2000 links. This list is being frequently expanded and
updated.
http://www.spp.umich.edu/telecom/
TEN-34: The Information Superhighway for European R&D
TEN-34
is a high speed pan-European interconnect facility between the national
research networks. The TEN-34 Consortium consists of sixteen national (and
one
regional) European research networks with DANTE (Delivery of Advanced
Network
Technology to Europe) as coordinating partner. The site includes
links to other
high-speed network projects in Europe.
http://www.dante.net/ten-34.html
Token Ring Network Overview (Louisiana State University)
Basic
information about token ring and token ring networks. http://bit.csc.lsu.edu/~hendriks/token.html
The Tolly Group
Network product test results and industry studies.
Includes an archive of Mr. Tolly's column in Network World. http://www.tolly.com/
UC Berkeley Networking Research Group Home Page
Learn about
networking with the students and faculty of University of California Berkeley.
Information about ATM research, information control and resource allocation for
ATM networks, and Internet billing and pricing to name just a few topics on this
site. http://www-networking.eecs.berkeley.edu/Networking/
Very High Speed Backbone Network Service(vBNS)
The purpose of this
page is to introduce to the Internet community MCI's high-speed network in
support of the National Science Foundation (NSF), and to provide access to vBNS
network statistics, a schedule of events and activities, and detailed site
configurations to support NSF-funded network researchers. http://www.vbns.net/
World-Wide Web Virtual Library section on Communications and
Telecommunications
A comprehensive list of communications and
telecommunications on the World Wide Web. Topics listed range from Broadband ATM
to Telemedicine. http://www.analysys.co.uk/commslib.htm
By: Zunair Siddiqui