Virtual Circuit Switching:Frame Relayand ATM

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Chapter 18
Virtual Circuit
Switching:
Frame Relay
and
ATM

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18.1 Virtual Circuit Switching18.1 Virtual Circuit Switching
Global Addressing
Virtual Circuit Identifier
Three Phases
Data Transfer Phase
Setup Phase
Teardown Phase

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Figure 18.1 Virtual circuit wide area network

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Figure 18.2 VCI

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Figure 18.3 VCI phases

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Figure 18.4 Switch and table

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Figure 18.5 Source-to-destination data transfer

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Figure 18.6 SVC setup request

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Figure 18.7 SVC setup acknowledgment

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18.2 Frame Relay18.2 Frame Relay
Architecture
Frame Relay Layers
FRAD
VOFR
LMI

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Figure 18.8 Frame Relay network

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VCIs in Frame Relay are called
DLCIs.
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Figure 18.9 Frame Relay layers

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Frame Relay operates only at the
physical and data link layers.
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Figure 18.10 Frame Relay frame

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Frame Relay does not provide flow or
error control; they must be provided by
the upper-layer protocols.
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Figure 18.11 Three address formats

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Figure 18.12 FRAD

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18.3 ATM18.3 ATM
Design Goals
Problems
Architecture
Switching
Layers

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Figure 18.13 Multiplexing using different frame sizes

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A cell network uses the cell as the
basic unit of data exchange. A cell is
defined as a small, fixed-sized
block of information.
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Figure 18.14 Multiplexing using cells

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Figure 18.15 ATM multiplexing

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Figure 18.16 Architecture of an ATM network

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Figure 18.17 TP, VPs, and VCs

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Figure 18.18 Example of VPs and VCs

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Note that a virtual connection is
defined by a pair of numbers:
the VPI and the VCI.
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Figure 18.19 Connection identifiers

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Figure 18.20 Virtual connection identifiers in UNIs and NNIs

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Figure 18.21 An ATM cell

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Figure 18.22 Routing with a switch

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Figure 18.23 ATM layers

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Figure 18.24 ATM layers in endpoint devices and switches

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Figure 18.25 ATM layer

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Figure 18.26 ATM headers

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Figure 18.27 AAL1

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Figure 18.28 AAL2

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Figure 18.29 AAL3/4

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Figure 18.30 AAL5