Author :
Fujii, Hiroyuki ; Tanimoto, Shigeaki ; Hariu, Takeo ; Miyashiro, Hirohisa ; Galasso, Linda
Abstract :
Recently, demand for mobile computing environments has been increasing greatly, and easy access from remote sites has become desirable. To meet this requirement, NTT has proposed a “Logical Office” service, which enables terminal plug & play, multiprotocol, and ubiquitous communication. NTT has already done some Logical Office service experiments, in LAN and Internet environments, which focused on the service offered in the early stages. The paper investigates our proposed Logical Office service over international ATM networks, which focuses on the future stage international ATM test beds between Japan and the US, provided by AT&T, KDD, and NTT, are used for this experiment. It was verified that the Logical Office service worked correctly in the international ATM environments, and that it provided sufficiently practical performance even there
Keywords :
asynchronous transfer mode; business communication; information networks; mobile communication; office automation; Internet; LAN; Logical Office service experiments; international ATM networks; international ATM test beds; logical office service; mobile computing environments; multiprotocol; remote sites; terminal plug & play; ubiquitous communication; Access protocols; Asynchronous transfer mode; Local area networks; Logic testing; Mobile computing; Multimedia computing; Personal communication networks; Plugs; Virtual private networks; Web and internet services;