Broadband Communications

Network to Node Interface Models

Ronak S Aswaney
ID:0710229

Canadian University of Dubai

July, 24th 2010
Overview of ATM
 ATM-Asynchronous Transfer Mode.
 Can be used in LANs, MANs, or WANs.
 Can carry voice, data, video separately or simultaneously.
 A transfer mode in which the information is organized into
cells.
 It is asynchronous in the sense that the recurrence of cells
containing information from a particular user is not
necessarily periodic.

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Overview of ATM
 ATM requires connections to be established before any
communication takes place.

 The connection is called a virtual circuit which could be

permanent or switched.

 Data rates from 25 to 622 Mbps.

 ATM guarantees that cells will not be disordered.

 The information field length is relatively small and fixed.

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ATM in comparision to TDM

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Network to Node Interface Models
 ATM Interface Types:

 User-Network Interface (UNI)

– End node-to-switch connection

 Network Node Interface (NNI)

– Connection between two ATM switches

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Illustration 1

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Illustration 2

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NNI Types

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NNI Types
 Private NNI
 Used to connect two switches of different vendors in private ATM
Networks.
 NNI-ICI (B-ICI)
 ICI - Inter Carrier Interface
 Used to connect two ATM networks of two different service
providers.
 Public NNI (NNI-ISSI)
 ISSI - Inter Switch System Interface.
 Used to connect two switches of one public service provider.

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NNI Cell Format
 Network-Network Interface (NNI)
– switch-to-switch format
– GFC becomes part of VPI field

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UNI Cell Format
 User-Network Interface (UNI)
– host-to-switch format
– GFC: Generic Flow Control
– VCI: Virtual Circuit Identifier, VPI: Virtual Path Identifier
– CLP: Cell Loss Priority
– HEC: Header Error Check (CRC-8)

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References
 http://cs.millersville.edu/~csweb/lib/userfile
s/ATM.pdf
 http://www.pulsewan.com/data101/atm_bas
ics.htm
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_
Transfer_Mode
 http://www.protocols.com/pbook/atm.htm

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