The Intelligent Bandwidth Manager and Its Role in Enterprise Networks
Christopher H. Morton, Joel F. Lewis, Stephen M. Reustle · AT&T Technical Journal · 1993
As the era of broadband networking dawns, network managers in the private sector will be faced with many choices — among competing technologies, products, and services — in providing what is called the Enterprise network “solution.” Enterprise networking is the interconnection of corporate, departmental, local, and remote network resources to create company-wide information utility. This paper discusses the issues that network managers face, and proposes an approach to the Enterprise network solution based on a concept known as intelligent bandwidth management (IBWM). Intelligent bandwidth managers are a class of devices based on asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) technology. These devices provide an effective transition methodology from narrowband networking to broadband networking.