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Asynchronous Transfer Mode

Asynchronous Transfer Mode, or ATM, is a new networking technology that has come into a significant place in the networking industry. Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) has been accepted universally as the transfer mode of choice for Broadband Integrated Services Digital Networks(BISDN). ATM is designed to provide fast packet (cell) switching over various types and speeds of media at variable rates from 64 kbps to 2 Gbps and beyond. ATM can handle any kind of information (voice, data, image, text and video) in an integrated manner. ATM provides a good bandwidth flexibility and can be used efficiently from desktop computers to local area and wide area networks. ATM is a connection-oriented packet switching technique in which all packets are of fixed length (53 bytes -5 bytes for header and 48 bytes for information). This connection-oriented technology allows for the passing of multiple types of service traffic over the media, making ATM the grand network technology covering all service types available today. This paper is an attempt to provide a brief summary of ATM, its beginnings, concepts and operation, as well as serve as a tool to bring the reader up to speed on what ATM is. Several opinions and future musings are drafted. Feel free to disagree. Finally, the paper will examine a glimpse into the future of ATM in the networking industry.