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Figure 5.17. <strong>the</strong> B-ISDN reference model.<br />

• Control plane—Manages <strong>the</strong> signaling and addressing functions needed <strong>to</strong><br />

establish VCs (call setup and teardown)<br />

• User plane—Addresses <strong>the</strong> processes pertaining <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong> user data delivery<br />

functions<br />

• Management plane—Addresses system-wide management functions<br />

between <strong>the</strong> control and user layers<br />

• Physical layer—Defines <strong>the</strong> transmission of <strong>the</strong> ATM cells between <strong>the</strong><br />

various DTE and DCE interfaces<br />

• ATM layer—Addresses <strong>the</strong> construction of <strong>the</strong> ATM cells (header generation,<br />

flow control, and VC addressing issues)<br />

• ATM adaptation layer—Provides <strong>the</strong> "processing" for different types of user<br />

data (voice, video, binary) between <strong>the</strong> ULPs and <strong>the</strong> ATM layer<br />

In 1990, <strong>the</strong> ITU-T revised <strong>the</strong> B-ISDN standards. In 1991, <strong>the</strong> ATM Forum was<br />

created (made up of Cisco, Stratcom, Newbridge, and NET) <strong>to</strong> develop a set of<br />

interoperability standards <strong>to</strong> facilitate <strong>the</strong> development of ATM-based products<br />

(ATM <strong>network</strong> adapters and switches). Without <strong>the</strong> ATM Forum, ATM would probably<br />

still be just a set of standards documents and no more. What <strong>the</strong> ATM Forum

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