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[Jayesh Shah <jvs@sasi.com>]

> I know that ATM switch may be classified into three categories: the
> shared-memory type, the shared-medium type, and the space-division type.
> I want to know about "ATM switch fabric(multistage interconnection
> networks)".
> How many kinds of fabric exist ? (for examples, banyan, omega, baseline
> etc...)
> and what's their shape ?
> 
> I'd be pleased, if somebody send me some info, text or related links or even
> keywords to continue my research.

You can probably look at the following paper -

Fouad A. Tobagi, ``Fast Packet Switch Architectures for Broadband
Integrated Services Digital Networks," Proceedings of the  IEEE,
 vol. 78, no. 1, pp 133-166, Jan 1990.

*Although it is a very old paper but it gives excellent introduction.

Ellen Witte Zegura, ``Architectures for  ATM Switching Systems," 
IEEE Communications Magazine, pp 28-37, Feb. 1993.

* As far as I remember, a modified version of this paper is also
* available on the web. You can check at Jon Turner's home page for
* this - http://emperor.arl.wustl.edu/~jst/

Hope this helps.

Regards
Jayesh
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Jayesh V. Shah,             
Networking Group, SAS, Bangalore
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