ATM Switching Fabrics

• ATM is based on a switched network architecture (Figure 10 - General Structure of an ATM Switch)

• Design Criteria and Performance Features of Switching Fabrics
  • Switching Architecture (Figure 11 - Classification of ATM Switching Architectures)

  • Storage Buffer Management (Figure 12 - Buffering Strategies for an ATM Switch)

  • Multicasting

  • Scalability

  • Traffic Performance Guarantees

  
  
• Table 2 - Current and Next Generation ATM Switches

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