SUBJECT C1)

Generally it is impossible to pick up any communications related technical journal, conference, or trade publication and not find something about ATM. However here are a few suggestions.

For *beginning* reading there are all sorts of ATM primers on the web. These freely available primers are the best place to start. Several pointers can be found in subject C7 "ATM Tutorials" of this FAQ. You can find others by doing a search on the WEB. Many communication vendors have good tutorials on their WEB sites. For starters try:

http://www.cisco.com
http://www.trillium.com
http://www.3com.com

Another suggestion is to try the atmforum website and go through past issues of "53 bytes", their newsletter.

There are several books recommend for *intermediate* reading. These are good for an engineer's basic understanding of most issues. Others are listed in subject C2 "General ATM References" of this FAQ.

"Asynchronous Transfer Mode", Martin De Prycker, Ellis Horwood, New York 1996, ISBN 0-13-178542-7.

Very readable general description of the technology and optimization. This book is now in its third edition.

"ATM - solutions for enterprise internetworking", David Ginsburg, Addison-Wesley, 1996, ISBN 0-201-87701-5.

"ISDN and Broadband ISDN with Frame Relay and ATM", William Stallings, third edition, Prentice-Hall, 1995, ISBN 0-02-415513-6.

Third edition of Stallings ISDN book which now contains coverage of ATM and frame relay. The book is intended to be both a professional reference and a textbook.

"Gigabit Networking", Craig Partridge, Addison-Wesley, Reading MA, 1993, ISBN 0-201-56333-9.

Very well written book. Craig is the Editor of "IEEE Network" magazine. Topics: fiber optics, cell networking, ATM, Gbps packet schemes, applications, host interface, higher protocols, bandwidth management and performance, distributed systems, etc.

For *advanced* reading I'd recommend you actually read the ATM specifications as published by the ATM Forum, and the IETF RFC's that deal with ATM: Traffic Management, UNI, MPOA, PNNI, etc. See subject C4 in the FAQ for ways to obtain ATM Forum documents. See subject C9 in the FAQ for ways to obtain IETF RFC's.

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