From: bent@jazz.concert.net (Melissa Bent)
Subject: 12/11 ATM Seminar Update
Organization: MCNC Center for Communications -- CONCERT Network
Distribution: nc
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:05:34 GMT


Previously, I sent a message to let folks know about this upcoming event
at MCNC. I had asked you to let me know by Thurs. Nov. 19 if you
plan to attend here at MCNC.

This event will also be broadcast over the CONCERT video network. Below is
a list of the sites on the network.  Please contact the
program coordinator at one of these remote sites if you are planning to
attend there.  If you work on one of the campuses or live nearby and plan
to go to the seminar directly from home, please plan to attend at the remote
site closest to you.  We have a limited amount of space here at MCNC so
this would be a tremendous help.

BGSM            MRI Building            919-716-3255
Duke            130A North Building     919-660-6909
Duke/Med        503 Davison Building    919-681-4566
ECU             Brody Building          919-551-2474
NC A&T          206 McNair Building     919-334-7614
NCSU            107H Park Shops         919-515-3676
NCSU-W          Withers Building        919-515-2858
RTI             Herbert Building        919-541-6920
UNC-A           129 Robinson Hall       704-251-6333
UNC-CH          08 Peabody Hall         919-966-5078
UNC-CH/Med      304 Berryhill Hall      919-966-1134
UNC-C           Atkins Building         704-547-2435
WSSU            G-22 Anderson Center    919-750-2680
MCNC            3021 Cornwallis Road    919-248-1421
NCSC            3021 Cornwallis Road    919-248-1100

CONCERT (Communications for North Carolina Education,
Research, and Technology)

I still need to know by Thursday, Nov. 19 if you plan to attend here at
MCNC.  Please let the program coordinators at the remote sites know if
you plan to attend there by the 19th as well.

Thanks for your interest in this seminar.

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On Friday, Dec. 11 from 8am-noon, Dr. Maurizio Decina will be speaking in the
MCNC auditorium.  His presentation will be on ATM high speed switching options.
I need to know how many people are interested in attending this presentation
by Thursday, Nov. 19.

MCNC is located at 3021 Cornwallis Rd., the northeast corner of Alexander Dr.
and Cornwallis Rd., in Research Triangle Park.  The auditorium, where the
lecture will take place, is in the Center for Microelectronics Systems
Technology building.  It's the first building on the left when you drive into
the MCNC driveway.  Parking is limited, so please try to carpool if at all
possible.

Thanks,
Melissa Bent
248-1421
<bent@concert.net>

Speaker: Maurizio Decina
         Professor at the Politecnico di Milano
         and Scientific Director of CEFRIEL

Title:  High Speed Switching for Broadband Communications

Abstract:
At first, service requirements for broadband communications are reviewed,
including single media (data communications, video communications) and
multimedia applications.
The current status of STM ( Synchronous Transfer Mode) and ATM (Asynchronous
Transfer Mode) high speed switching options in the framework of the B-ISDN
(broadband ISDN) is briefly reviewed by highlighting both the multirate
challenge for STM and the congestion control challenge for ATM.
Then, STM and ATM interconnection networks are classified in the frame of a
common taxonomy.  Hence, a few types of ATM switching systems are identified and
their performance and implementation are briefly discussed.
Finally, a view on today's non-ATM high speed switching alternatives
is given, including:
-STM multirate switches,
-variable length datagram switches,
The various switching options are described by taking into account technologies
for the implementation of both buffer modules and electronic/photonic space
interconnections modules.