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 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
Last Updated: 24 July 1998 Created by Francis
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