what are difference b/w ATM and Ethernet?

Question

what are difference b/w ATM and Ethernet?

Answer 1

ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) is a dedicated-connection switching technology that organizes digital data into 53- byte cell units and transmits them over a physical medium using digital signal technology.



Ethernet refers to the family of local-area network (LAN) products.Ethernet LANs consist of network nodes and interconnecting media. The network nodes fall into two major classes: Data terminal equipment (DTE),Data communication equipment (DCE)

Answer 2

There are a lot of differences.



ATM is a small cell based system ( with Qos etc)



Ethernet is a send at will and detect any collisions , then resend with an exponential retyr algorith, packets are about 10 * atm cells



rtc etc

Answer 3

ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode is a technological system developed for both local and wide area networks LAN and WAN, it's designed to handle data as well as video and voice traffic.



Ethernet is a family of frame-based computer networking technology for local area networks LAN

Answer 4

Ethernet

It is a family of frame-based computer networking technologies for local area networks (LANs)

And



ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode)

It is a technological system developed for both local and wide area networks (LAN and WAN), and designed to handle data as well as video and voice traffic in real time, all at the same time.

Answer 5

atm is either a **** term or a cash machine. ethernet is how many people communicate between thier computer and a network or the internet...

if that's not what you're after, need more info...

Answer 6

In ATM , data is passed as cells

In ethernet it is as packets

Answer 7

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