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Experiences of building an ATM switch for the local area

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ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 24, Issue 4

Pages 158 - 167

https://doi.org/10.1145/190809.190329

Published: 01 October 1994 Publication History

Abstract

The Fairisle project was concerned with ATM in the local area. An earlier paper [9] described the preliminary work and plans for the project. Here we present the experiences we have had with the Fairisle network, describing how implementation has changed over the life of the project, the lessons learned, and some conclusions about the work so far.

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Index Terms

Experiences of building an ATM switch for the local area
1. Networks
  1. Network properties
    1. Network range
      1. Local area networks
      2. Wide area networks
  2. Network protocols

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