ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode » History » Version 3
laforge, 01/15/2023 05:53 PM
1 | 1 | laforge | h1. ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode |
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3 | ATM was supposedly the future of telecom networking in the late 90ies/early 2000s. Its promise was to provide both circuit-switched as well as packet-switched services. |
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5 | 2 | laforge | ATM was also supposed to become the basis for the German B-ISDN (broadband ISDN) services on which much literature can be found, but which never really saw widespread adoption. |
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7 | 3 | laforge | While ATM was deployed in public communication networks for some time, it never saw as much adoption as expected; many users went to using IP directly in [[SDH]] or (later ) [[Ethernet]]. Circuit-switched services were implemented as VoIP on top of IP. |
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9 | h2. Child-pages |
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11 | 1 | laforge | {{child_pages}} |
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13 | h2. Links |
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15 | * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode |