Overview
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is the hottest network technology in the marketplace, enabling extremely high-speed transmission of all user traffic, including voice, data and video. The UNI 3.1 standard enables developers to build equipment that will fully interoperate in today's public and private ATM network environments. This is the only authoritative guide to this new standard, by The ATM Forum, the industry-led consortium that created it.
The book presents highly-detailed specifications for interfacing ATM user devices, public and private network equipment. It also covers significant Version 3.1 changes in signaling and signaling virtual channels.
: Communications engineers and programmers developing ATM applications and equipment. Version 3.0 of this title was a Prentice Hall PTR bestseller.
An agreement on standards is essential to the communications industry so that all types of equipment will "interoperate" or work together. An industry-led consortium, the ATM Forum, was formed to write market-focused global standards. One result of their efforts contained in this book describes the interface for programmers and users developing ATM products and applications.