ATM

Review: A Retrospective View of ATM

[Date of Submission]Review: A Retrospective View of ATM

The ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode), its origin and role in the IT development and networking as well as its influence shall be discussed in the following paper. The essential features of ATM are its packet length which is fixed and called cell as an identifier which is requested by the host and permits it to get its destination perfectly. During the late 1980s it was not able to support voice transfer. After 1990's there was a belief that the ATM might be able to recreate quality service from end ...