"The entire landscape of telecommunications services, technologies and competition ... fluid and changing daily" is the context which emerged the publishing of this book. New technologies such as digital switching and fiber optics were incorporated to modernize the networking and to improve the transfer rate. As a concept, asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) is considered to be a streamlined switching and multiplexing method capable of transporting all types of information with high throughput and low delay. ATM switches transfer cells from the input to the output of the network. The book sees ATM switches as a system performing control and management functions, relating the ATM switching and network control. The relationship between ATM switching and network control is given an in-depth analysis.
by Thomas M. Chen and Stephen S. Liu
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