A personal computer hosted terminal adapter for the broadband integrated services digital network and applications

The authors describe a terminal adapter which connects a personal computer to the broadband integrated services digital network based on the asynchronous transfer mode technique. They show that the low cost and modular architecture of the adapter provides a powerful platform serving broadband applications. They present four classes of communication applications which have been built or they are under development: bulk data transfer, interactive data transfer, interworking communication and multimedia applications. They describe the architecture of each application class and address performance issues in respect to the communication parameters