ATM
Now you can save time and money by integrating your many networks into one, with Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). ATM is the first service that integrates voice, video and data over a single local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN). ATM service can support any number of users, any type of information, and virtually any service at multiple speeds using multiple protocols.
Altipoint Communications' ATM service is a switched-data technology with a difference. Fixed-length cells make it faster than other packet-switched services (with speeds ranging from DS1 to OC12) and allow simultaneous transmission of different data speeds and protocols. And because it meets multiple established Quality of Service standards, it's the only proven transfer medium that can support any traffic type.
By contrast, other networking technologies use data units of variable length known as frames. The variable length of these frames makes bandwidth sharing more complex and frequently, more expensive.
Features:
- High-speed transmissions, especially among widely distributed locations: This is critical where complex LAN applications and higher numbers of users create LAN-to-WAN bandwidth bottlenecks. ATM service eliminates these problems by transmitting data throughout your networks at native mode LAN rates.
- Flexibility: ATM service can meet all your needs from video and voice to data and e-mail over a single transport medium.
- Bandwidth-on-demand: ATM service lets you transmit any kind of information, and it provides bandwidth savings by providing only as much as you need for a given application, with no waste.
- Scalability: ATM service accommodates a great diversity of bandwidths and speeds, plus any number of users and locations.
Benefits:
- More control over your network costs: Managing one network instead of several may help you reduce your staffing, maintenance and billing requirements.
- Better performance over WANs: With LAN-like performance over wide area networks, WANs will become virtual LANs. Users at remote sites will become more productive by accessing corporate information from their desktops faster and more efficiently.
- Cost-effective way to grow your network: Altipoint's ATM service is based on a point-to-point switched architecture. By using bandwidth efficiently, you can add locations without decreasing the bandwidth available to each. * An affordable way to handle new applications: With support for diverse traffic types as well as Quality of Service guarantees for diverse performance requirements, ATM service can handle demanding multimedia applications.
- More control over your equipment costs: Since ATM service can be implemented as either a network technology (backbone to existing technologies) or as an equipment upgrade, you can protect the investment you've already made in equipment. And you can migrate your network to ATM service as needed.
Sample Applications:
- LAN/WAN interconnection
- Intranet access
- Multimedia networking
- Videoconferencing
- Hospital networks/remote diagnosis
- Multimedia access/conferencing
- Internet backbone
- Live video desktop seminar
- Access to remote, central database
- Web browsing
- Distance learning
- Video surveillance
- Electronic gaming
- Internal and external videoconferencing