Tera ATM LAN testbed prototypes

Ronald P. Bianchini Jr.

doi:10.1117/12.192201

3 November 1994 Tera ATM LAN testbed prototypes

Ronald P. Bianchini Jr.

Proceedings Volume 10278, Defining the Global Information Infrastructure: Infrastructure, Systems, and Services: A Critical Review; 102780W (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.192201
Event: Photonics for Industrial Applications, 1994, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

This paper documents the architecture and prototype development of the Tera ATM LAN project at Carnegie Mellon University. The Tera ATM LAN testbed connects hundreds of workstations in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department via an ATM-based network. The Tera network architecture consists of multiple switched Ethernet clusters interconnected using an ATM switch that is optimized for LAN traffic. A switched Ethernet cluster consists of the MATER network interface, sixteen connected Ethernet networks and a single port of the ATM switch. The ATM switch is based on the CMU Tera architecture. The Tera architecture, optimized for local area networks, incorporates a scalable nonblocking switching element with hybrid cell queues. Cells are queued first in a global first-in first-out queue that is shared by all switch inputs and then in output queues that are dedicated to individual switch outputs. The shared input queue design is scalable since it is based on a Banyan network and N FIFO memories.

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Ronald P. Bianchini Jr. "Tera ATM LAN testbed prototypes", Proc. SPIE 10278, Defining the Global Information Infrastructure: Infrastructure, Systems, and Services: A Critical Review, 102780W (3 November 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.192201

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