Thursday, July 19, 2012

What is AAL2?

ATM adaptation layer 2
  • Concept introduced by Ericsson on ISS-95 (1995)
  • Bandwidth efficient transmission of low rate, short and variable length packets in delay sensitive applications
  • Several (up to 248) AAL2 user information streams are multiplexed on the same ATM connection.
  • Standardized in ITU-T I.366, I.363, Q.2630
  • Ericsson owns the  “AAL2 patent”
  • Inventor: Lars-Göran Petersen
  • Cello supports:
  • node internal AAL2 connections
  • network wide AAL2 connections
  • Cello may also act as a pure AAL2 switch
  • CPS is implemented on ET as AAL2 multiplexor/demultiplexor
  • SSSAR is implemented on SPM (or application device)
  • AAL2U is the interface between CPS and SSSAR

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