ATM OC-3 Equipment

At this time, IBM does not have an OC-3 NIC for the RS/6000. The fastest from Austin is 100 Mb/sec TAXI TURBOWAYS 100 ATM Adapter

Test equipment

• DeskNet Systems ATM Test Equipment and Network Analyzers
• ATM testing for the North Carolina "Information Highway" including broad test categories is found at MCNC ATM Test Laboratory. They have developed two versions, OC-3 (155mb/s) and OC-12 (622mb/s), of an ATM network analyzer they call "ATTILA"
• Wandel & Goltermann DA-30C analyzer. An "OC-3/STM-1 ATM UTP Analysis Package with dual receivers to test services and equipment used in ATM twisted pair networks".
• Net2Net CellBlaster is an ATM analyzer and management system supporting "complex generation and decode of cells". It consists of a board in a Pentium system plus MS-Windows OLE-enabled software.
  From: nate@net2net.com (Nate Schildbach):

CellBlaster provides decodes for AAL 1 & 5, RFC 1483 & 1577, OAM F4 & F5, Resource Management, UNI 3.0/3.1, TCP/IP IPX/SPX, and LAN Emulation 1.0.

• Network General Corp. Sniffer® Network Analyzer is available for ATM. This is a list of their Sales Offices. The portable ATM Sniffer is based on a a Dolch Pentium portable PC. Network General part number PL-62 is a 5 slot 100 MHz Pentium with 1GB disk and 32 Mb list price $9900. of RAM. The analyzer is MS-62-ATM-C with list price of $23,500. For sales contact Elizabeth Miller at 914-398-1308 or Shawn Vice at 908-758-0062 x37. Technical questions go to 1-800-395-3151.
• ADTECH Inc. does not have a website; telephone 1-800-348-0080. An advertisement from Datamation describes their "AX/4000 ATM Test System". Below, I've copied the description from an advertisement:
• Generator: Up to 16 ports; 8 traffic sources/port; traffic loading; Classes of service; PDU editors; AAL-1, AAL-3/4, AAL-5; OAM and test cells; traffic capture playback; error injection; 12 plugable interfaces; up to 155 Mbps.
• Analyzer: Up to 8 ports; Complete QoS testing; SVC/PVC testing; Real-time analysis; Cell/PDU statistics; AAL-1, AAL-3/4, AAL-5; OAM and test cells; traffic policing; analyze 16 streams/port; cell/PDU capture; live traffic monitoring; physical layer testing; Easy Windows Interface; X-terminal remote access
• Network Emulator: test ATM applications; emulate network QoS; Add network impairments (transfer dealy, delay variation, loss rate, misinsertion rate, payload errors, re-ordering rate); multiple CDV models; traffic policing; CLP tagging; VPI/VCI remapping; simple/duplex versions; line rate translation.
• GN Nettest is also web-impaired and can be contacted at 1-800-465-9400. Their interWATCH 95000 is a Unix X-Windows based deidcated multiport ATM/LAN/WAN analyzer. Features include: monitoring; cell test;, line rate multiport traffic generation; extensive physical, ATM & AAL statistics and higher-layer decodes. It has 1 microsecond resolution for multiport time and data correlation.

Interesting books and papers about ATM and IP