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Seminar - An Overview of Communications Technologies

Module 4 - ATM Technology                                                                                                                      Slide 3 of 46 _________________                                                                                  __________

                    Broadband Networks Deployment Driving Trends

                                Location of Remote Business Units

                                Centralized Computers Capable of Handling Several
                                   Million Instructions Per Second (MIPS)

                                LAN / WAN Interconnections

                                Globalized Communications

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Information technology and communications networks are basic elements in achieving  efficiencies and economies in daily business operations. Businesses are looking for ways to address business issues. Businesses are facing challenges to provide integrated voice, video, text, graphics data in a manner useful to its end-users. Broadband technology, like ATM technology, will enable the transmission of multi-media information to meet business applications. Businesses are faced with networking employees and end-users at remote locations scattered all over the globe and maximizing the utilization of high-powered centralized computing power.

Remote Business Locations - Major enterprises have business units and outsourcing labour in remote locations which has created a need for internetworking and increased speed of communications.

High-Powered Centralized Computing Power - Centralized computing power results in high-bandwidth networks for information-intensive applications.

LAN/WAN Interconnection - LAN and WAN islands of enterprises require bandwidth intensive networks deploying ATM technology.

Globalized Communications - International networking requires broadband communications networks for multimedia applications.