Atm in Action: Business and Technology Case Studies (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)

ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) is a networking technology generating tremendous interest among networking-intensive enterprises of all types. This volume offers a series of practical explorations of ways that ATM can be put to work. Drawn from the experiences of large corporations, smaller, innovation-driven firms, and governmental entities with varying network environments, these scenarios illustrates ATM's great potential, as well as its pitfalls, and help readers determine how best to proceed with their own implementations. This book should interest telecom managers and network architects in companies considering using ATM, as well as sales and marketing professionals in companies that provide ATM products and services.