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| The Importance of ATM | |
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| Where ATM Fits in Your Network | |
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| The Slow Windup (Wire to Fiber) | |
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| Fast Pitch Means ATM Is Coming | |
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| ATM's Origins | |
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| ATM Benefits | |
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| Potential Problems | |
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| How To Put Information Into ATM Cells | |
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| Adaptation Overview | |
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| Segmentation Overview | |
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| ATM Cell Formats | |
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| Header Fields | |
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| Generic Flow Control | |
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| Virtual Path Identifier | |
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| Virtual Connection Identifier | |
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| Payload Type Identifier | |
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| Cell Loss Priority | |
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| Header Error Check | |
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| Information Payload | |
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| Operations and Maintenance Cells | |
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| Breaking Frames Into Cells | |
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| Types of User Data | |
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| Constant Bit Rate | |
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| Variable Bit Rate | |
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| Timing Relationships | |
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| ATM Adaptation Layers | |
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| AAL-1 for CBR | |
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| Convergence | |
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| Unstructured Mode | |
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| Structured Mode | |
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| Other CS Types | |
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| Synchronous Residual Time Stamp | |
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| AAL-2 for VBR with Timing | |
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| AAL-3 for VBR Connection-Oriented Data | |
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| AAL-4 for Connectionless VBR Data | |
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| AAL-3/4 for VBR Data | |
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| Convergence | |
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| Segmentation | |
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| AAL-5 (SEAL) for CO Data | |
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| Convergence Common Part | |
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| SAR | |
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| Frame Relay Specific Convergence | |
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| Differences Between FR and SSCS | |
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| Control Bit Mapping | |
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| Interworking ATM and Frame Relay | |
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| Upper Layer Interworking | |
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| Frame Relay Over ATM | |
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| FR Service Emulation | |
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| Service Interworking | |
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| Data Exchange Interface (DXI) | |
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| ATM Connections and Cell Switching | |
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| Cell Switch as Logical DACS | |
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| Call Setup | |
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| Addressing Makes Connections | |
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| PVCs | |
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| SVCs | |
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| Multicast/Broadcast | |
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| Traffic Management | |
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| Traffic Parameters and Descriptors | |
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| Parameters Defined | |
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| Quality of Service | |
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| Usage Parameter Control | |
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| Generic Cell Rate Algorithm | |
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| Congestion Control | |
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| Network Management | |
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| Performance Monitoring | |
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| Fault Management | |
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| OAandM Cells | |
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| Alarms | |
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| Loopbacks | |
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| Continuity Check | |
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| Interim Local Management | |
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| Access To ATM Backbone Services | |
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| 45 Mbit/s T-3 | |
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| 155 Mbit/s | |
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| Multimode Fiber | |
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| Shielded Twisted Pair | |
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| `Slower' ATM Interfaces | |
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| 52 vs. 25 Mbit/s | |
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| ATM Over T-1 and E-1 | |
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| SONET as ATM Access | |
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| SONET and STS: the New ESF | |
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| SONET Section, Line, Path | |
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| Locked-Mode Framing | |
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| Synchronous Payload Envelope | |
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| Virtual Tributaries | |
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| Bit/Byte Synchronous | |
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| VT Groups | |
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| Floating Mode Framing | |
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| Multiplexing to Higher Levels | |
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| Synchronous Digital Hierarchy | |
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| Implementation Agreement on SONET | |
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| 100 Mbit/s Fiber | |
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| Other Services as Feeders | |
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| Public ATM Services | |
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| Total Costs and Benefits | |
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| Tariffs and Rate Elements | |
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| ATM Applications and Equipment | |
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| Switching Architectures | |
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| Shared Bus | |
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| Buffered-Banyan Matrix | |
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| Broadcast Matrix | |
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| Switch Fabric Summary | |
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| ATM Adaptation Devices | |
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| Adapting ATM NICs | |
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| Adapting Hubs | |
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| Adapting Concentrators | |
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| Adapting Switches | |
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| Types Of ATM Switches | |
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| When Cost Is The Driver | |
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| When Redundancy Is Critical | |
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| Adaptation Strategies | |
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| Routing in an ATM Environment | |
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| Subnet Restrictions | |
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| A Single-Router Solution | |
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| A Router Dissected | |
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| The Exploded Backplane | |
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| Enhanced Security | |
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| Routing Summary | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Acronyms | |
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| Annotated Bibliography | |
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| SONET Transmission and Broadband Framing | |
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| The Need for Framing | |
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| ESF Framing As an Example | |
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| HDLC Data Link Framing | |
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| Frame Format | |
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| Flags and Bit Stuffing | |
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| Header | |
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| Information | |
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| Error Checking Code | |
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| HDLC Procedures | |
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| Mode Setting | |
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| ARQ for Error Correction | |
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| Checkpointing with p/f Bits | |
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| Index | |