Development and simulation of broadband switch by ATM with buffers

Future networks are expected to handle a wide variety of traffic categories including voice, low-speed data, high-speed data, band-compressed video for teleconference, and full-motion video for video signal transmission. It is hoped that ATM technology can provide integrally wide varieties of network services including LAN. The prototype design of our ATM switching system using the Banyan network with input buffers has been completed and some evaluation of the system has been performed. Furthermore, the characteristics of the Banyan network with a sorting network and a large ATM switching system has been simulated to implement a cross-connect system. The performance of the ATM switching system was estimated by computer simulations.