Introduction
ATM fundamentals.
Current Network requirements - CBR, VBR,
and UBR.
Current technology.
Network management costs.
A new kind of transmission needed.
Connection-orientation transmission.
ATM history and standards.
Packet Vs Cell switching.
ATM network topology.
Cell multiplexing.
Look up tables.
The User Network Interface
The UNI and NNI.
Public UNI.
The 3 layers of ATM.
The cell header.
Why are ATM cells so small?
Using virtual circuits.
Using virtual paths.
PVCs and SVCs, UNI 4.0.
Additional facilities.
Group addressing.
Multicast facilities, and ABR.
The Adaptation layer and Signalling
The Adaptation layers - AAL.
The service classes.
AALs 1 through 5.
Signalling and control.
Set up and clearing messages.
Information elements.
Connection types ATM addressing.
Public and private addresses.
Address registration-using ILMI.
Multipoint signalling.
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Traffic Control and Policing
The traffic contract.
Quality of service issues.
Bandwidth and the traffic contract.
Policing the contract using GCRA.
Connection Admission Control Traffic shaping.
Congestion control.
The Physical Layer of ATM
The physical layer of ATM.
SDH and SONET.
Uses of UNI 3.0 and 3.1.
Types of media.
UTP.
Coax and Fibre applications.
LAN Emulation
LAN Emulation.
Types of emulation.
RFC 1577 - Classical IP.
ATM Forum LANE 2.0
The LANE services - LECS, LES and BUS.
Joining an emulated LAN.
Connecting across an ELAN.
PNNI
Routing, PNNI and its development.
Hierarchical groups.
Peer group leaders and border nodes.
PNNI signalling.
Transit lists.
Crankback
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