Practical SMDS demonstrations

Author

Jennings, Tate B. ; Lawrence, Joseph C. ; Tesink, Kaj

Author_Institution

Bell Commun. Res., Red Bank, NJ, USA

fYear

1992

fDate

13-16 Sep 1992

Firstpage

300

Lastpage

309

Abstract

The switched multi-megabit data service (SMDS) is a high-performance, public, packet-switched data service. Offered as public network equivalent of a MAC-level service, the datagram transport offered by SMDS is easily integrated into networking protocol architectures using local area network (LAN) or metropolitan area network (MAN) technologies such as Ethernet and fiber distributed data interface (FDDI). A customer network management (CNM) service has been defined in conjunction with SMDS, based on SNMP. SMDS and the accompanying CNM service were successfully demonstrated. These demonstrations and how SMDS and its CNM service can be integrated into existing corporate networks are discussed

Keywords

computer networks; packet switching; Ethernet; MAC-level service; SNMP; customer network management; datagram transport; fiber distributed data interface; local area network; metropolitan area network; networking protocol architectures; packet-switched data service; switched multi-megabit data service; Access protocols; Communication switching; Ethernet networks; FDDI; Local area networks; Media Access Protocol; Metropolitan area networks; Multicast protocols; Packet switching; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Local Computer Networks, 1992. Proceedings., 17th Conference on

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3095-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LCN.1992.228119

Filename

228119