Communications of the ACM articles from February 1995

Communications of the ACM archives from February 1995

Reforming telecommunications law.
February 1, 1995... 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 Committee, gave up trying to bring his vehicle for reform, Bill S-1822, to the...

Standards: free or sold? (standards development organizations)
February 1, 1995... 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 standards and the stringent policies on sharing copies of standards may...

ATM concepts, architectures, and protocols. (asynchronous transfer mode) (Issues and Challenges in ATM Networks)
February 1, 1995... Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) is often described as the future computer networking paradigm that will bring high-speed communications t the desktop. What is ATM? How is it different from today's networking technologies? This article is...

ATM network: goals and challenges. (asynchronous transfer mode) (Issues and Challenges in ATM Networks)
February 1, 1995... Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) can provide both circuit and packet-switching services with the same protocol, and this integration of circuit and packet-switching services can be beneficial in many ways. Four major benefits of the ATM...

Secure communications in ATM networks. (asynchronous transfer mode)(includes related article) (Issues and Challenges in ATM Networks)
February 1, 1995... 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 North Carolina Information Highway (NCIH) [7], and applications. With this...

Building future medical education environments over ATM networks. (asynchronous transfer mode) (Issues and Challenges in ATM Networks)
February 1, 1995... 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 be a lifelong process to allow people, particularly those in technical...

ATM connection and traffic management schemes for multimedia internetworking. (asynchronous transfer mode) (Issues and Challenges in ATM Networks)
February 1, 1995... The rapid advances being made in microprocessor technology have stimulated significant interest in distributed multimedia applications supported by high-speed desktop computers and high-speed networks. Examples of distributed multimedia...

Improvements to TCP performance in high-speed ATM networks. (Internet's Transmission Control Protocol; asynchronous transfer mode) (Issues and Challenges in ATM Networks)
February 1, 1995... Performance of TCP connections in high-speed wide-area ATM networks is of great importance due to the widespread use of the TCP/IP protocol for data transfers and the increasing deployment of ATM networks. ATM technology promises substantial...

ATM virtual private networks. (asynchronous transfer mode) (Issues and Challenges in ATM Networks)
February 1, 1995... 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 network resources. Efficiency and flexibility in managing the resources are...