This is the first book designed specifically to help communications and IS professionals and system designers successfully build ATM-based client/server systems.As companies plan to migrate their business critical client/server applications to broadband networking technologies, specific implementation information is critical. In this book, two ATM experts first review both ATM and client/server technology, and then walk through the migration process, showing the advantages of using ATM in client/server environments. Understand performance and traffic issues unique to ATM, and learn how to optimize ATM for the data traffic patterns client/server architectures typically generate. Finally, the book presents evolving protocols and how they will be used to design campus and enterprise networks of the future.This book is for mid-to-upper-level IS and communications professionals responsible for current networks and planning, and for network and application developers. Read Less