International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 25-28, 1993 / Riviera Hotel and Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / As technology progresses we are faced with ever increasing volumes and rates of raw
and processed telemetry data along with digitized high resolution video and the less
demanding areas of video conferencing, voice communications and general
LAN-based data communications. The distribution of all this data has traditionally
been accomplished by solutions designed to each particular data type. With the advent
of Asynchronous Transfer Modes or ATM, a single technology now exists for
providing an integrated solution to distributing these diverse data types. This allows
an integrated set of switches, transmission equipment and fiber optics to provide
multi-session connection speeds of 622 Megabits per second.
ATM allows for the integration of many of the most widely used and emerging low,
medium and high speed communications standards. These include SONET, FDDI,
Broadband ISDN, Cell Relay, DS-3, Token Ring and Ethernet LANs. However, ATM
is also very well suited to handle unique data formats and speeds, as is often the case
with telemetry data. Additionally, ATM is the only data communications technology
in recent times to be embraced by both the computer and telecommunications
industries. Thus, ATM is a single solution for connectivity within a test center, across
a test range, or between ranges.
ATM can be implemented in an evolutionary manner as the needs develop. This
means the rate of capital investment can be gradual and older technologies can be
replaced slowly as they become the communications bottlenecks. However, success of
this evolution requires some planning now.
This paper provides an overview of ATM, its application to test ranges and telemetry
distribution. A road map is laid out which can guide the evolutionary changeover from
today's technologies to a full ATM communications infrastructure. Special
applications such as the support of high performance multimedia workstations are
presented.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/608864 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | Smith, Quentin D. |
| Contributors | CSTI |
| Publisher | International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Proceedings |
| Rights | Copyright © International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Relation | http://www.telemetry.org/ |
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