Subject: Telecom Network Management

Topic: Broadband Network Management

Difficulty: Medium

The ATM Forum Management Model:

i. The Network Management Working Group of the ATM Forum has developed an end-to-end generic management model that encompasses private and public networks and lays out standards for interworking between them.

ii. The model defines gateways between SNMP and CMIP systems, and between standards-based and …

• Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) is, according to the ATM Forum, a telecommunications concept defined by ANSI and ITU standards for carriage of a complete range of user traffic, including voice, data, and video signals.

• ATM was developed to meet the needs of the Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network …