Question

conclusion of automatic machine

Answer 1

recent years, the Internet has grown tremendously, with more and more people jumping onto the Internet and Multimedia highway. This has not only caused bandwidth to be a much sought after commodity, but has also changed the whole persona of the Internet. Applications such as video conferencing, virtual meeting rooms and virtual white boards, are revolutionising the use of the Internet. New techonolgy such as ATM and Gigabit Ethernets has been brought forward to help mitigate this bandwidth problem. Advantages and disadvantages for both ATM and Gigabit Ethernets have been discussed, and whether ATM or Gigabit should be adopted depends very much upon achieving a balance between economical factors, current network configuration, functional ability, scalability, cost and most importantly application needs. Both ATM and Gigabit should safe guard the network against future bandwidth requirements. The general recommendation for which technology to use is this; ATM is better suited for long distant communications where as Gigabit Ethernet is better for short range connections. Having said that, work is being done now to incorporate the ATM ideology into PC in place of PCI and IDE buses. If this succeeds, than having ATM migrate from the desktop to LAN to WAN will bring about a higher level of integration. There are some ideas of taking "ATM-like" functions and adding them to other LAN technologies. However these add-ons will occur in the layer 3 (network layer) while ATM does them in hardware. In the end, what is most important is a soild foundation, one which will support  new, and time sensitive multimedia applications.