Published January 1996, updated in january 1998 covers over 210 information-packed pages, it analyzes:

• Worldwide Equipment Markets
• European Equipment Markets
• Worldwide Trials & Commercial
• Implementations
• Standards
• Semiconductor Chip Technology Vendors

Hyped as the future of switching, and the focal point of the convergence of telecoms/datacoms, ATM has a future that, on the evidence uncovered for this volume, is not quite so certain. “Whilst almost everybody round the world is playing with ATM in some shape or form, and there are a number of reasonable sized ‘anticipatory commercial’ implementations, there is no strong sense of urgency about the technology. Only Telecom Finland has suggested it might be making money from ATM and that statement has not been much repeated after its initial utterance, leading to the conclusion it might have been a little premature.”

• Changes
• What has not Changed
• Changes in the material itself
• Forecast

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

THE POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS DRIVERS FOR ATM

• Foreword 6
• Cable Telephony* 7
• Desktop to Desktop* 7
• Educational and Distance Learning ** 7
• HDTV* 8
• Installations in Developing Countries** 8
• Internet* 8
• Medical Applications*** 9
• Karaoke on Demand* 11
• Interactive TV** 11
• LAN to LAN interconnection*** 12
• PCS*** 13
• Private Networks* 13
• Public Networks** 14
• Telecommuting* 14
• Voice *** 15
• Wireless in the Local Loop 16
• Other Image Transfer* 16
• Summary 16

GLOBAL ATM TRIALS and COMMERCIAL IMPLEMENTATIONS

• Foreword 17
• Australia 18
• Optus Communications 18
• Telstra 18
• Austria 18
• Belgium 18
• Belgacom 18
• Canada 19
• New Brunswick Telephone 19
• Stentor Alliance 19
• CANARIE 19
• LARG*net (London Area Regional and Global information network) 19
• China 21
• Guanghzou 21
• Beijing 21
• Xinhua News Agency 22
• Other: Shanghai Jiao Tong and Xi'dian universities 22
• Denmark 22
• Finland 22
• Telecom Finland: ATM Strategy and Network 22
• Telecom Finland: Internet Telephony Initiative 23
• Finnet 23
• Finnish Social Insurance 24
• Multimedia 24
• Funet 24
• City of Tampere 24
• France 25
• France Telecom - Commercial Service 25
• France Telecom - "Superhighway" Trials 26
• Transrel 26
• BREHAT (Brasseurs et Reseau Haut Debit ATM) 26
• MELBA 27
• DORA (Deploiement de l'Optique dans le Reseau Acces) 27
• Raccordement Optique Flexibles 27
• Renater 27
• WorldCom/MFS Communications in Paris 27
• Sophie Antipolis 29
• City of Caen, Basse Normandie 29
• Germany 29
• Deutsche Telekom - Commercial ATM Service 29
• Deutsche Telekom - Comenius 30
• Communications Network International (CNI) 30
• Meganet 30
• Berlin 30
• Duesseldorf 31
• Alternative competitor - o.tel.o (Vebacom + now also RWE) 31
• Alternative Operator - Viag Interkom 32
• Hong Kong 33
• Hungary 33
• Ireland 33
• Italy 32
• Olivetti Telemedia/Infostrada 32
• Telecom Italia (subsidiary TeleMedia International) 32
• Casino de la Vallee, Saint Vincent 33
• Japan 33
• NTT 33
• NTT Mega Media ATM network 34
• Japan Telecom 34
• Japan Airlines HQ 34
• KDD 34
• Netherlands 34
• Surfnet 34
• Merger of Generale Bank and Credit Lyonnais Subsidiaries 34
• New Zealand 35
• Telecom New Zealand 35
• Norway 35
• Pakistan 35
• Poland 36
• Russia 36
• Singapore 36
• S.Africa 36
• Spain 36
• Sweden 37
• Telia 37
• Telenordia 37
• Switzerland 37
• Swiss Telecom commercial service 37
• ITU Geneva WAN Trial 38
• WHO System Geneva 38
• Taiwan 38
• UK 39
• BT - National SMDS/ATM Network 39
• BT Commercial CellStream Service 39
• Energis 40
• Cable and Wireless 40
• Mercury (now part of Cable and Wireless Communications) 41
• Racal 41
• COLT 41
• Torch Communications 41
• BBC 41
• SuperJANET 41
• Other Academic Institutions 42
• Fibernet/Tanet 42
• Local CATV Companies 42
• Telewest 43
• Post Office 43
• Cambridge 44
• ATM to the home - Acorn/DEC/Ericsson/Oracle 44
• BMW/Rover 44
• US 44
• Corporation for National Research 44
• VISTAnet 44
• Ameritech
• Bell Atlantic
• BellSouth - Vistanet
• Brooks Fiber Properties - National SONET/ATM plans
• GTE
• GTE - Overall US National Strategy
• GTE-Newbridge National ATM Demo Network
• GTE Implementations in Hawaii, Oregon and California
• Other GTE Trials and Experiments
• Intermedia Communications
• MCI
• MCI - vBNS (very high-speed Backbone Network Service)
• Nynex
• Nynex - NYNet
• Pacific Bell
• Pacific Bell - Bagnet (Bay Area Gigabit Network)
• SBC - Texas
• SBC - ADSL/ATM Trial with Shell in Houston
• South Carolina Consortium
• Sprint
• Sprint - The Silicon Valley Test Track
• Time Warner/TCI
• US West
• US West - Oregon State System of Higher Education (OSSHE)
• Worldcom
• UUNet
• Compuserve
•  

PRIVATE USERS

• Amoco Corpn - Aries
• Duke University Medical Centre's Radiology Dept (Durham, NC)
• Morehead State University of Kentucky
• North Carolina Information Highway
• Texas Instruments
• US Naval R&D Group - San Diego
• Vyvx (subsidiary of WilTech, Tulsa)
• Walt Disney's Futuristic Celebration Community
• Westinghouse Nuclear Technology Division - Pittsburgh
• Other Notable US ATM Trials or Implementations
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INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION OR COMPANIES - European

• ETNO (European Telecommunications Network Operators)
• European ATM Pilot
• JAMES (Joint ATM Experiment in European Services)
• SAMBA
• Bilateral ATM links in Europe
• BETEL (Broadband Exchange over European Telecommunications Links)
• BT/France Telecom
• Deutsche Telekom/France Telecom
• Infonet
• MFS Communications
• European RACE (Research in Advanced Communications in Europe)
• STET/France Telecom
•  

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION OR COMPANIES - US and other

• Alcatel's SkyBridge Satellite Project
• AT&T
• AT&T, KDD, and Telstra.
• Cable and Wireless
• IBM - Global Network
• SITA (Now Equant)
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COMPETITION TO ATM

• 1. ADSL
• 2. Fibre Channel
• 3. X25/Frame Relay
• 4. ISDN
• 5. High Performance Parallel Interface
• 6. FDDI
• 7. SMDS
• 8. Frame Relay
• 9. Internet
• 10. 100Base-T
• 11. 100VG-AnyLAN
• 12. Switched Ethernet
• 13. Switched Token Ring
• 15. Gigabit Ethernet
• Summary
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ATM STANDARDS

• Organisational issues
• ATM Forum
• Anchorage Accord
• Standards
  • 1. Physical layers
  • 2. Inverse Multiplexing
  • 3. Security
  • 4. LAN Emulation
  • 5. Virtual LANs
  • 6. UNI (User Network Interface)
  • 7. Network Management
  • 8. Credit-based flow control system
  • 9. Residential broadband (Video on Demand etc)
  • 10. MPOA (Multiprotocol over ATM)
  • 11. Standard API
  • 12. Testing
  • 13. Frame relay/ATM interworking
  • 14. Voice and Telephony over ATM
  • 15. Switched Virtual Circuits
  • 16. B-ISDN
  • 17. ATM25
  • 18. Guaranteed Frame Rate
  • 19. ATM over ADSL
  • 20. Point-to-Point Protocol over ATM over ADSL
  • 21. CIF (Cells In Frames)
  • 22. IP Switching
  • 23. ATM addressing
• Miscellaneous Other activities on which the Forum has been working

VENDORS

• Updates
• Amalgamations
• Reasons for Amalgamations
• Interest in the ATM Market
• Technical Claims
• Nationality
• Gigabit Ethernet
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INDIVIDUAL VENDORS

• 3COM Corpn
• ADC Kentrox
• ADC Telecommunications
• Agile Networks
• Alantec Corp (See Fore Systems)
• Alcatel (France)
• AMP
• Apple
• Ascend Communications
• Astarte Fibre Networks
• ATML (Advanced Telecommunications Modules Ltd) (UK)
• AT&T/Lucent
• AVIDIA (See Now Pairgain Technologies)
• Bay Networks
• Broadband Technologies
• Cabletron
• Cascade
• Centillion Networks
• Chipcom
• Cisco
• Summary
• Connectware (See Atm Systems)
• Crosscomm (See Olicom)
• DEC
• Crosscomm
• DSC Communications
• ECI TelecommunicationS (Israel)
• Fibronics (Israel)
• First Virtual
• Fore Systems
• Freebird Communications (Uk)
• Fujitsu (Japan)
• General Datacomm
• General Instruments
• Granite Systems
• GTE
• Hughes Lan Systems
• Hypercom
• IBM
• Interphase Corp
• Ipsilon Networks
• Kalpana
• K-NET (UK)
• Lannet (Israel)
• Level One Communications
• Lightstream
• Ericsson (Sweden)
• Madge Networks (Uk)
• Microsoft
• Nashoba Networks
• NEC (Japan)
• Netcorp (Canada)
• Netwiz (Israel)
• Newbridge Networks (Canada)
• Nextlevel Communications
• Nokia (Finland)
• Nortel (Canada)
• Odetics
• Olicom (Denmark)
• Onstream Networks
• Optical Data Systems
• Orckit Communications (Israel)
• Ornet (Israel)
• OST (Ouest Standard Telematique) (France)
• Pairgain Technologies
• Premisys
• Pulse
• Rapid City
• Siemens (Germany)
• Stratacom
• Syskonnect
• Tadiran (Israel)
• Tandem
• Telematics
• Tellabs
• Toshiba
• US Robotics
• UB Networks
• Whitetree NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES
• Xylan
• Xyplex
• Zeitnet

ALLIANCES

• ADC Telecoms-Hitachi
• Chipcom/IBM/Ericsson
• Fore/Nortel (See above)
• Fujitsu/Philips/HP

TEST COMPANIES

• Adtech
• Anritsu-Wiltron
• Desknet Systems
• Duke Communications
• Hewlett-Packard
• Nuko Information Systems
• Radcom (Israel)
• Siemens (Germany)
• Tekelec
• Tektronix
• Telenex
• Wandel & Goltermann (Germany)
• Worldcom

ATM SC CHIP TECHNOLOGY

• Introduction
• Industry Structure
• Product and Background by Company
• ACD (Advanced Communications Devices)
• Actel
• Alcatel
• AMCC
• AMD
• Ascom Technology
• ATML
• AT&T/Lucent
• BAY NETWORKS/NET Ics
• BROADCOM
• BROOKTREE (See Now ROCKWELL)
• Cisco/Granite Systems
• Cypress
• Fujitsu Microelectronics
• HP
• IBM
• IDT
• Intel/Compaq
• Lucent Technologies
• Mitsubishi
• Mmc Networks
• Maker Communications
• Motorola
• Netics
• Oki
• PMC-Sierra
• Rockwell
• SGS-Thomson Microelectronics
• Siemens
• Sun Microsystems
• Symbios Logic
• Texas Instruments
• Toshiba
• Transwitch
• TUT Systems
• Vitesse
• Vlsi Technology
• Whitetree
• Summary

GLOSSARY

FORECASTS

• Table One - Percentage New LAN Nodes by Protocol 1996 - 2001
• Notes for Table One
• Table Two - Worldwide ATM Equipment Market
• Line Graphs:
• Forecast Worldwide LAN Card Market 1995 - 2001 208
• Forecast Worldwide LAN Switches Market 1995 - 2001 208
• Forecast Worldwide Enterprise Switches Market 1995 - 2001 209
• Forecast Worldwide Backbone Switches Market 1995 - 2001 209
• Table Three - Revenue by Vendor 1997 and 1998
• Notes for Table Three