Title :
LuckyNet: an overview
Author :
Gitlin, R.D. ; London, T.B. ; Greenstein, L.J. ; Ahuja, S.R.
Author_Institution :
AT&T Bell Lab., Holmdel, NJ, USA
Abstract :
A description is presented of the motivation, architecture, initial applications, and objectives for LuckyNet, a wide-area AT&T Bell Labs gigabit research network. LuckyNet is a heterogeneous network that has as one of its major objectives the ability to provide users with gigabit-per-second network access. Initial applications provide 155 Mbps network access and include video conferencing, document retrieval, low-latency processor-sharing, and LAN interconnection
Keywords :
B-ISDN; LAN interconnection; SONET; asynchronous transfer mode; telecommunication services; test facilities; wide area networks; 155 Mbit/s; ATM; B-ISDN; LAN interconnection; LuckyNet; SONET; WAN; applications; document retrieval; gigabit-per-second network access; heterogeneous network; low-latency processor-sharing; network architecture; testbed; video conferencing; wide-area AT&T Bell Labs gigabit research network;
Conference_Titel :
Global Telecommunications Conference, 1991. GLOBECOM '91. 'Countdown to the New Millennium. Featuring a Mini-Theme on: Personal Communications Services
Conference_Location :
Phoenix, AZ
Print_ISBN :
0-87942-697-7
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOM.1991.188539
