TY - JOUR
AU - Roberts, Jim
AB -  Prof. Jim Roberts France TClCcom - CNET 38/40 Rue du Gintral Leclerc 9213 1 Issy-les-Moulineaux, France The Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), a connection-oriented fast packet switching technique, is particularly adequate for the integration of a wide spectrum of services such as data, voice, image, video or multimedia with different bitrate and quality of service requirements. Its roots go back to the early eighties when it became obvious that fast hardware switching and buffering circuits were able to cope with these challenges. In 1986, CCITT (now ITU-T) based the new set of standards for the Broadband-ISDN (B-ISDN) on ATM, which triggered intensive R&D activities all over the world. Within Europe, the RACE I programme of the European Union was largely devoted to issues of architectures, component technologies, protocols, services, traffic control and management of the B-ISDN. All major switching technology vendors have developed ATM-based products for the upcoming information society and its needs in telecommunication. While the RACE phase I was primarily aimed at proving the technological feasability, in RACE phase 11, testbeds have been built up for networking field trials and experiments in order to test the new technology, to show the interoperability of various types of equipment, 
TI - Guest editorial
JO - Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (Electronic)
DO - 10.1002/ett.4460070502
DA - 1996-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/guest-editorial-RQNUruAo4h
SP - 383
EP - 384
VL - 7
IS - 5
DP - DeepDyve
ER -