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Seminar - An Overview of Communications Technologies

Module 4 - ATM Technology                                                                                                                      Slide 41 of 46 _________________                                                                                  __________

                       Case Study #1 - An ATM Network Implementation

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This diagram shows two locations of an enterprise using ATM switches. The two switches are connected using a  SONET link running at OC-3 (155 M bps). 

Customer Application#1 - Videoconferencing, using Constant Bit Rate (CBR) ATM service at 51 M bps.

Customer Application #2 - Mainframes, Cluster Controllers and Terminals for batch processing using Available Bit Rate (ABR) ATM service at 1.5 M bps.

Customer Application #3 - LAN for Transaction Processing using Variable Bit Rate (VBR) ATM service at 100 M bps.