CENG525 Broadband Network Architectures Quiz 1 Time: 20 minutes

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Name: _____________________________________ ID: ________________________________
A. SONET rings are self-healing. Explain why and give an example illustrated by figures. (20 pts)













B. Draw the ATM protocol stack. (20 pts)











C. Consider the following label swapping example where A is communicating with B and C with D.
Fill the corresponding switching tables. (20 pts)


CENG525 Broadband Network Architectures Quiz 1 Time: 20 minutes
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D. Suppose that you are using an ATM network to transmit IP packets of length 420 bytes each.
1. How many ATM cells are needed to transmit a single IP packet? (10 pts)








2. What is the percentage of ATM overhead in this case? (10 pts)









E. List 3 ATM QoS categories and give an application used in each category. Sort the 3 categories by decreasing
order of priority. (20 pts)