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D A P T E R S
With 3Com’s ATMLink adapters
you can make a smooth transition
from your legacy system to state-
of-the-art ATM networking.
ATMLink adapters support ATM
Forum LAN Emulation which inte-
grates ATM with legacy systems
across the enterprise. This lets you
scale up to ATM incrementally, giv-
ing you maximum performance
with minimal disruption of ongoing
network activity.
Whenever you’re ready, you can
link ATMLink adapters with the
3Com CELLplex
™
family of ATM
and Ethernet/ATM switches and the
LinkSwitch
™
2700 Ethernet/ATM
workgroup switch to provide your
organization with complete end-to-
end 155 Mbps connectivity.
Turn to the ATMLink adapter
family for:
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High performance. ATMLink
SBus adapters support 1024 virtual
connections (VCs), while the PCI
version supports 2048 VCs; both
achieve optimal efficiency and per-
formance through hardware-based
segmentation and reassembly
(SAR) and AAL5.
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Complete end-to-end solution.
You can link ATMLink adapters
with the 3Com CELLplex family of
ATM and Ethernet/ATM switches
and the LinkSwitch 2700
Ethernet/ATM workgroup switch
for complete end-to-end 155 Mbps
connectivity from the desktop to the
backbone.
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Bandwidth for demanding
applications. Your bandwidth-
intensive applications, such as
imaging, video, and 3D-modeling,
benefit from the high performance
of 3Com’s ATMLink architecture.
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Interoperability. To ensure inter-
operability between your legacy
LANs and ATM systems, ATMLink
adapters conform to relevant
ATM Forum standards, including
UNI 3.0/3.1, ILMI, IP over ATM
(SBus only), and LAN Emulation
specifications.
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Multiple Virtual LANs. Support
for Multiple LAN Emulation
Clients (LECs) allows ATMLink
adapters to participate in Multiple
Virtual LANs.
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Traffic management. Extensive
VBR, CBR, and UBR traffic shap-
ing and congestion mechanisms
give you exceptional virtual con-
nection traffic management.
The ATMLink Family: Providing high performance for
bandwidth-intensive applications, and a smooth migra-
tion to ATM enterprise networking.
3Com ATMLink adapters,
based on ATM Forum stan-
dards, offer high performance
for Sun workstations and
PCI-bus computers.
