Network Technologies Investigation
NASA/GSFC High Speed Fiber Optics Test Bed

4 October 1998

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• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1 Purpose
  • 1.2 General Requirements
  • 1.3 Technologies Covered
  • 1.4 Executive Summary
• 2. ATM
  • 2.1 ATM Overview
    
  • 2.1.1 ATM Protocol Layers
  • 2.1.1.1 Physical Layer
  • 2.1.1.2 ATM Layer
  • 2.1.1.3 AAL Layer
  • 2.1.2 ATM Service Classes
  • 2.2 ATM as a Wide Area Network
  • 2.3 ATM over Satellite
• 3. Fibre Channel
  • 3.1 Fibre Channel Overview
  • 3.1.1 Fibre Channel Architecture
  • 3.1.1.1 FC-0 Layer
  • 3.1.1.2 FC-1 Layer
  • 3.1.1.3 FC-2 Layer
  • 3.1.1.4 FC-3 Layer
  • 3.1.1.5 FC-4 Layer
  • 3.1.2 Fibre Channel Topologies
  • 3.1.3 Fibre Channel Classes
  • 3.1.3.1 Class 1
  • 3.1.3.2 Class 2
  • 3.1.3.3 Class 3
  • 3.1.3.4 Intermix Class
• 4. Gigabit Ethernet
• 5. Comparison Analysis of ATM, Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet
  • 5.1 Bandwidth
  • 5.2 Latency
  • 5.3 Ability to Scale
  • 5.4 Error Detection/Recovery
  • 5.5 Multicasting/Broadcasting
  • 5.6 Traffic Management
• 6. Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM)
• 7. Summary
• Bibliography

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