ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates some of telecommunication technologies services such as Internet, video on demand, video telephony (VT), distant learning/medicine and telecommuting, and explains how asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) can provide these services economically. VT service offer among the favorite services provided by the ATM networks both for the general public and business community. Telephone network operators are at a crossroad in terms of how to deal with the explosive growth of the Internet service. A telephone network operator can divert the bursty Internet traffic to another network such as frame relay or ATM network. The frame relay or ATM networks in which the Internet traffic is being routed may not necessarily belong to the same operator. The external asymmetrical digital subscriber technology solution is the deployment of ATM technology all across to provide both voice and Internet service via the ATM network.
