Cable Internet Access and Digital Subscriber Line in Various Networks and their Types

The switching method known as Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is used in telecom networks. Data is encoded into small, fixed sized cells using asynchronous time-division multiplexing. This is different from other protocols that use packets or frames of varying sizes, like Ethernet and the internet protocol suite. Both circuit switched networking and ATM share similarities. As a result, it is an excellent option for a network that must simultaneously handle real-time, low-latency content like voice and video as well as conventional high throughput data traffic. The connection-oriented model of ATM requires the creation of a virtual circuit between two endpoints prior to the actual data exchange.

Author(s): Christopher Mark*

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