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ATM uses a connection-oriented, virtual circuit (VC) transport model that transports<br />

data in 53-byte cells between ATM endpoints. This small cell size makes ATM well<br />

suited <strong>to</strong> transmit voice, video, and data. ATM supports point-<strong>to</strong>-point bidirectional<br />

SVCs, unidirectional point-<strong>to</strong>-multipoint SVCs, and bidirectional point-<strong>to</strong>-point PVCs<br />

<strong>to</strong> establish connections between DTE endpoints. These VC connections, unlike<br />

traditional packet-switched WAN technologies, support Quality of Service (QoS)<br />

features that can provide guaranteed bit rate delivery services.<br />

As you are already familiar with <strong>the</strong> general operation concepts behind<br />

packet-switched <strong>network</strong>s (VCs, congestion control, and so on), we will look at how<br />

ATM implements <strong>the</strong>se operational functions, using <strong>the</strong> ATM architecture model as a<br />

reference.<br />

ATM Architecture<br />

During <strong>the</strong> ISDN development process, <strong>the</strong> ITU-T realized that a need existed for<br />

developing standards <strong>to</strong> provide digital transmission services beyond that of <strong>the</strong><br />

ISDN primary rate. The B-ISDN reference model, illustrated in Figure 5.17, uses <strong>the</strong><br />

same basic control/user/management plane model used by <strong>the</strong> ISDN reference<br />

model. The B-ISDN layers and planes define <strong>the</strong> following functions:

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