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Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)

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Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) has been developed mainly by the telecommunications companies and is proposed as a standard for Broadband ISDN. It was independently developed by Bellcore, the research arm of AT&T in the USA, and several giant telecommunications companies in Europe. This has led to two possible future standards.

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Buchanan, W. (1996). Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). In: Applied Data Communications and Networks. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1207-9_12

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