Understanding ATM

Asynchronous Transfer Mode(ATM),provides another example of wide are network technology.ATM also came from the telecommunication industry.Unlike other technologies,ATM had ambitious goals-it was designed to handle conventional telephone voice traffics as well as data traffic,and to serve s a local area technology as a well as a wide area technology.Initially ATM designers faced lot of difficult challenge because the three intended uses voice,videos and data have different sets of requirements.