8 May
2002
8 May
'02
11:30 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great Joe once stated:
Just got back from an auction. One of the things that I got in my lot
was an Adtech AX/3000 Cell Data Generator. A quick Google search
revealed that this is for generating and testing ATM (Asynchronous
Transfer Mode) data on T-1 through OC-3 networks. Can somebody give me a
better expanation (in plain english!)? Also any suggestions of what I
do with it?
From what I understand, ATM is a wire protocol (in the same way that
Ethernet is a wire protocol) that works over a particular type of wire. I
do know that ATM uses a relatively small fixed packet size (somewhere between 50
and 60 bytes) and it's run at high speeds.
What you have sounds like a device you plug into an ATM network and it
generates packets to send across ATM to test the hardware level.
-spc (What you can do with it? I don't know ... )