atm network

The Asynchronous Transfer Mode has been chosen as the standard system concept for integrated broadband communication networks by the ITUT. The system is predicted to grow rapidly as soon as it becomes widely accepted by network operators and users. Why has communications evolved in history towards the ATM concept and why has it been chosen as the broadband solution? In the late 1800's public telephone networks capable of transmitting analogue voice signals were established. …

…on communications, with the possibility for mass multimedia communication systems coming into our lives. The networking technologies for these new applications must be powerful and flexible to provide a large scale and long term solution. ATM has been developed to provide these features by evolving the system concept to give high speed data transfer. With the support of fibre technologies, ATM is the optimum transfer mode and most widely accepted transfer mode for future communications.