Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is one of the most promising of the current crop of
networking protocols. Internationally supported and defined, ATM was designed to support the
demanding networked multimedia applications that are the present and future of telecommunications.
But what is ATM? Why is its design so much more robust than established protocols like
Token Ring and Ethernet? And just how does it work? To discover the answers to these questions,
as well as many others-- read on.
