Cell Relay Archive[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index][Thread Index][Author Index][Subject Index] ATM: hardware or software or both?
Hi all you experts out there I am a newbie to the ATM technology (well, networking in general for that matter). I've been reading on some materials on the ATM technology and I am a bit confused as to what exactly ATM is. My main confusion is that: is ATM a hardware technology or software protocol? One professor told me that ATM is a hardware switching technology and some other person told me that's a protocol. Can someone please try to clear me up on this. If you have some pointers to papers that I should read, please let me know too. thanks very much Jian -- +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Jian Liang Zhen | http://www.cs.purdue.edu/people/zhenjl | | jlz@cs.purdue.edu | | | 1.317.495.5412 | | |
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