ATM
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
- Legacy technology for telecommunications
- Backbone of PTS, ISDN
- Enabled the reliable delivery of voice, video, and data
- Frames were a fixed size of 56 bytes
- All data is gonna be tini tiny
- Real time applications will be getting the attention that they need
- Time Division Multiplexing (TDM)
- Allow multiple users to use one resource
- Quality of Service
- First in First out is the opposite idea of QoS.
- Very fast for its time (155 Mbps vs. 1,544)