For the foreseeable future a significant percentage of devices usingan ATM network will do so indirectly, and will continue to be directly attached to "legacy" media (such as Ethernet and token ring). In addition these devices will continue to utilize "legacy" internetwork layer protocols (for example, IP, IPX, APPN, etc.). This means that inorder to effectively use ATM, there must be efficient methods available for operating multiple internetwork layer protocols over heterogeneous networks built from ATM switches, routers, and other switched devices. This challenge is commonly referred to as theoperation of multiprotocol over ATM.
This book reviews the various options for the transport and support of multiprotocols over ATM.
This book was written for networking consultants, systems specialists, system planners, network designers and network administrators who need to learn about SVN and associated protocols in order to design and deploy networks that utilize components from this framework. It provides readers with the ability to differentiate between the different offerings. A working knowledge of ATM is assumed.
It is intended to be used with "High-Speed Networking Technology: An Introductory Survey", which describes methods for data transmission in high speed networks, and "Asynchronous Transport Mode (ATM) Technical Overview", which describes ATM, a link-level protocol using the methods described in "High-Speed Networking Technology: An Introductory Survey"to transmit various types of data together over the same physical links. This book describes the networking protocols that use ATM as the underlying link level protocol.