Adaptec ANA-5940 Wide Area Connectivity

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ANA-5910/5930/5940 User’s Guide
ANA-5910/5930/5940 Use r’s Gui de
Stock Number: 51069 4-00, Rev. C Page: 2-2
Print Spec Number: 493081-00
Current Date: 5/28/97 ECN Date: 05/29/97
native wide area connectivity, scaleable bandwidth, and bandwidth
guarantees.
Wide Area Connectivity
International telephone companies have standardized ATM to
support their domestic telephone voice traffic. As nations deploy
their individual ATM net works, ATM’s standard d efinition makes it
easy to interconnect these various ATM networks into a cooperative
integrated global network.
Figure 2-1. ATM Networking