February 1995 - Vol. 38 No. 2
Features
Reforming telecommunications law
The heroic effort to rewrite the nation's 60-year-old telecommunications law failed in September when Sen. Fritz Hollings (D-S.C.), chair of the Senate Commerce…
Why do some standards development organizations (SDOs) provide standards for free and others charge significant amounts of money for them? The fees from the sale of…
ATM concepts, architectures, and protocols
Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) is often described as the future computer networking paradigm that will bring high-speed communications to the desktop. What is ATM? How…
ATM network: goals and challenges
Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) can provide both circuit and packet-switching services with the same protocol, and this integration of circuit and packet-switching…
Secure communications in ATM networks
High-speed networking technology and standards have progressed dramatically in the past few years and much attention is now focused on deployment efforts, such as the…
Building future medical education environments over ATM networks
The educational requirements of our society are changing. It is no longer sufficient to obtain an education at a single point in time and be done; rather, education must…
Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks are aimed at supporting a variety of services, including voice, video and data, while allowing the users to efficiently share…
Inside risks: Computers as substitute soldiers?
Technological edge has been sought throughout military history, and today's versions of the longer lance are the computerized, integrated systems that reach pervasively…