A Guide to Modern WAN Networking, and How it Evolved

Paul Reilly

Silicon Graphics, Inc.

This white paper looks into the world of ATM and Broadband ISDN. The intent of this paper is to explain these emerging technologies, how they evolved, and explore the impact they might have on the computer industry. Various related technologies such as X.25, ISDN, and PDH are also covered.

How to Get This Article

If you have a graphical Web browser (eg: Mosaic) and a PostScript file viewer (eg: Ghostview, xpsview), you can download and view the file right now.

Or, you may download a compressed, .ps version of this paper using anonymous ftp. The file is called ATM.ps.Z and is located in the /pub/Surf directory of our ftp server sgigate.sgi.com.

Once you have the compressed file, you must uncompress it before it is viewable:

uncompress filename.ps.Z

This will make a larger file without the ".Z" which you can then display.

If you need help using anonymous ftp here is a sample session.


               ftp sgigate.sgi.com
               Enter user name: anonymous
               Password: me@myhost.edu
               ftp> cd /pub/Surf
               ftp> binary
               ftp> get FILENAME
               ftp> quit