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The B-ISDN ATM Reference Model

Broadband ISDN using ATM has its own reference model, different from the OSI and TCP/IP models. The model is shown in Figure 2. It consists of three layers, the physical, ATM, and ATM adaptation layers (AALs), plus whatever the users want to put on top of that.

  
Figure 2: The B-ISDN ATM reference model




 

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