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@Article{Burren:1991:HSC,
author = "J. W. Burren",
title = "High Speed Communications --- a tutorial on the jargon
and technologies",
journal = j-COMP-NET-ISDN,
volume = "23",
number = "1--3",
pages = "119--124",
month = Nov,
year = "1991",
CODEN = "CNISE9",
ISSN = "0169-7552 (print), 1879-2324 (electronic)",
ISSN-L = "0169-7552",
bibdate = "Sat Sep 25 15:30:02 1999",
bibsource = "ftp://ftp.ira.uka.de/pub/bibliography/Distributed/networks.bib;
http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/compnetisdn.bib",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
journal-URL = "http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01697552",
memo = "It is claimed that X.25 was originally developed by
the PTTs as a short term measure to placate the
computer industry whilst the massive task of digitising
the phone networks was undertaken. Plesichronous is
multiplexing where the transmission channels are all
running at the same nominal bit rate but actually have
slight variations in speed. Bit stuffing into a
higher-than-aggregate rate plesichronous channel is
used to make up the difference between nominal and
aggregate rates. Fibre optics and the emerging high
speed LANs have pushed the move towards high-speed
broadband networking. The term `multimedia network' is
used to refer to a mixed traffic broadband network (ie
voice, video, data, etc). B-{ISDN} uses 53-byte packets
called cells carrying 48 bytes of data. Broadband
networks have a low BER so there should be no network
level error correction. Broadband networks can loose
data due to overflow which requires end user rather
than network level recovery. Broadband networks should
provide no flow control at the network level. One of
the benefits of ATM over STM in B-{ISDN} is that it
allows the use of `adaption layers' above the ATM to
provide varying QOS.",
references = "Refs: none",
where = "None",
}