What is this? ATM Cell Data Generator

From: Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner <spc_at_conman.org>
Date: Wed May 8 18:30:26 2002

It was thus said that the Great Joe once stated:
>
> Just got back from an auction. One of the things that I got in my lot
> was an Adtech AX/3000 Cell Data Generator. A quick Google search
> revealed that this is for generating and testing ATM (Asynchronous
> Transfer Mode) data on T-1 through OC-3 networks. Can somebody give me a
> better expanation (in plain english!)? Also any suggestions of what I
> do with it?

  From what I understand, ATM is a wire protocol (in the same way that
Ethernet is a wire protocol) that works over a particular type of wire. I
do know that ATM uses a relatively small fixed packet size (somewhere between 50
and 60 bytes) and it's run at high speeds.

  What you have sounds like a device you plug into an ATM network and it
generates packets to send across ATM to test the hardware level.

  -spc (What you can do with it? I don't know ... )
Received on Wed May 08 2002 - 18:30:26 BST