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| Title: | Development and implementation of a virtual ATM network access |
| Authors: | Diekmann, Tim |
| Keywords: | ATM |
| Issue Date: | Dec-1998 |
| Publisher: | University of Kaiserslautern |
| Abstract: | ATM enables the user to negotiate certain quality of service (QoS) properties for each individual connection on an ATM network. The virtual ATM API project (ViAA) extends the capability of setting these properties to the user on a desktop that has no native ATM network access but is connected to an ATM edge device using conventional LAN technology such as Ethernet. All that matters to a programmer with regard to ATM is to be supplied with an interface that allows to set the QoS properties. For this reason ViAA merely reproduces the XTI API with ATM support on the user desktop that lacks the ATM facilities preventing it from dealing with the low-level network details. The user requests are ensembled into series of frames and forwarded to an ATM edge device where they are passed to the local native ATM driver. The flexible concept enables ViAA to be used in combination with an arbitrary DLPI compliant device driver making it even completely independent of the appropriated layer 2 technology. This makes ViAA the optimal solution in a network environment where legacy LAN technology is still employed but user demands on a quality of service arise which ATM promises to provide. |
| URI: | http://dspace.icsy.de/handle/123456789/16 |
| Appears in Collections: | 04: Diploma Theses / Diplomarbeiten
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