{"id":319,"date":"2020-08-18T19:23:47","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T20:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2020-08-22T19:25:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T20:25:16","slug":"this-is-the-page-title-toplevel-154","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=319","title":{"rendered":"ATM"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<title>ATM<\/title>\n<p>\nAlthough not provided in commercial distributions as of this writing, there are drivers for\ncards supporting the <glossary>Asynchronous Transfer Mode<\/glossary> (ATM). ATM functions like a never ending\ntrain. When an empty &#8220;car&#8221; comes along, the data can jump into it. These cars or <i>cells<\/i> are\nfairly short (58 octets total, 48 data, 5 header).\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe basic idea behind ATM is that mixed <glossary>bandwidth<\/glossary>\nsystems (such as data and voice) can use the same cable without loss of efficiency. ATM is the layer\ndirectly  above the physical hardware, with the ATM adaptation layer (AAL) serving as the interface\nto the higher-level protocols. The ATM layer is actually broken up into two sub-layers. The\ntransmission control (TC) is responsible for building the cells and the physical medium (PM) layer\nis the interface to the physical hardware.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAs of this writing, ATM is supported in Linux, but not available in any of the standard\ndistributions. An experimental (read pre-beta) driver is available from <i>lrcwww.epfl.ch<\/i>.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATM Although not provided in commercial distributions as of this writing, there are drivers for cards supporting the Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). ATM functions like a never ending train. When an empty &#8220;car&#8221; comes along, the data can jump into &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/?page_id=319\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-319","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/319\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-tutorial.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}