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The ATM Forum has made progress on standards for signaling and frame relay interoperability, but faces tough work ahead on congestion control and the network-to-network interface, according to forum president Fred Sammartino.
Speaking at the recent ATM: Year Two conference here, Sammartino detailed where the group stands with standards that ensure interoperability between Asynchronous Transfer Mode services, allowing users to smoothly connect networks across carriers.
For users, the key standard is probably interoperability between ATM and frame relay. The forum has approved an interoperability standard, and the Frame Relay Forum is currently balloting its members. Results will be announced next week at the NetWorld + Interop 94 conference in Las Vegas.
That standard would cover a number of networking scenarios, including frame relay transport over an...