Taking ATM home

Several factors have contributed to the falling costs of providing broadband interactive services to residential users, including high-speed transmission technologies, availability of ATM-based insfrastructure and digital compression technologies. The trend toward distributed computing is clearly be...

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Published in:Telecommunications international 1995-12, Vol.29 (12), p.30
Main Authors: Sharpe, Randy, Hamid, Lalani
Format: Magazinearticle
Language:English
Subjects:
Adaptation
Asynchronous transfer mode
Automated teller machine networks
Bandwidths
Broadband
Distributed processing
Modems
Price level changes
Residences
Servers
Service introduction
Set top boxes
Signal processing
Systems design
Wireless networks
Work at home
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Summary:Several factors have contributed to the falling costs of providing broadband interactive services to residential users, including high-speed transmission technologies, availability of ATM-based insfrastructure and digital compression technologies. The trend toward distributed computing is clearly benefiting broadband interactive services and workers at home. A loosely coupled, network-based architecture allows intelligence to be distributed across a network, offering flexibility in the partitioning of an application. CATV, networks providing high quality digital video and direct broadcast satellite services are all areas of growth in serving the residential customer. Network capacity is limited by the available bandwidth. The flexibility and service independence of ATM networks allows virtual channels of disparate data types and rates to be aggregated and transported across a common network and common interfaces. ATM enables a service-independent network capable of transporting services without requiring a new infrastructure every time a new service is introduced.
ISSN:1534-9594