An Analysis of Universal Multimedia Switching Architectures
Radhika Ranjan Roy, Ashok K. Kuthyar, Vanita Katkar · AT&T Technical Journal · 1994
Distributed multimedia applications impose stringent and complex requirements on the switching and transport architectures of a network. An analysis shows that both synchronous transfer mode (STM) and asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) can meet the bandwidth and performance requirements of the emerging multimedia applications. ATM becomes the technology of choice, however, since it can: — Transfer multimedia traffic efficiently, via its channel sharing capability, — Employ statistical multiplexing using cell-switching to obtain high channel utilization, and — Support connectivity eficiently in many-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many communications environments.