Skip to main content

Error Performance of IEEE 802.6 Networks

21 February 1989

New Image

This paper investigates error performance issues concerning Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks. ATM is being proposed as a transport mechanism for Broadband ISDN (B-ISDN) networks. Fundamentally, ATM transports voice, video and data services in common fixed size packets called cells. ATM networks will be based on fiber transmission systems. In fiber systems the random error rate is quite low but there is an occurrence of burst errors predominantly caused by protecting switching.