SMDS service in Europe: a public operator's experience

Ferruccio Antonelli; Egidio Perretti

doi:10.1117/12.157023

15 October 1993 SMDS service in Europe: a public operator's experience

Ferruccio Antonelli, Egidio Perretti

Proceedings Volume 1975, Local and Metropolitan Area Networks; (1993) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.157023
Event: Video Communications and Fiber Optic Networks, 1993, Berlin, Germany

Abstract

A growing diffusion of LANs and development of more complex computer applications is pushing requirements on network providers for a new kind of service able to offer connectivity and performance comparable to that of LANs but over a metropolitan area or better inside a geographical extension. B-ISDN is the future answer that standardization bodies have identified and PTOs chosen; but availability of B-ISDN is foreseen only for the late 90s. In the meantime SMDS, elected as the first service in the context of B-ISDN, seems to be the right solution for current users' needs, especially for LAN interconnection. In order to provide SMDS early, evolutionary towards B-ISDN but realizable solutions have to be used: SIP has identified MANs as a technology to offer an SMDS-like service in the near and medium term, and to gather traffic for future B-ISDN in the long term. In this view SIP is experimenting with Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) on field, together with other technology like star- based geographical networks.

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Ferruccio Antonelli and Egidio Perretti "SMDS service in Europe: a public operator's experience", Proc. SPIE 1975, Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, (15 October 1993); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.157023

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