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ATM101: A basic look at ATM technology

By
Lauren May
Telenetworks

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) has recently been the subject of tremendous marketing promotion. ATM has been held out as the one-size-fits-all solution for the world’s current and future communications needs. To better understand how ATM can actually be used - now and in the future - you need to understand the basic technology. In this article Lauren provides a very good introduction to data communication protocols and techniques, and then explains why ATM has become so popular.

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