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ATM Forum

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A membership organization founded in 1991 to promote ATM networking technology. It worked with ANSI and the ITU to set standards. Its first specification in 1992 defined the User-Network Interface (UNI). In 2004, the Forum merged with the MPLS and Frame Relay Alliance. For more information, visit www.ipmplsforum.org. See ATM.


(networking, body)ATM Forum - An international non-profit arganisation aiming to encourage the user of Asynchronous Transfer Mode through interoperability specifications and to promote cooperation and awareness.

The ATM Forum consists of a worldwide Technical Committee, three Marketing Committees for North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific as well as the User Committee, through which ATM end-users participate.

Worldwide Headquarters: 2570 West El Camino Real, Suite 304 Mountain View, CA 94040-1313 USA.

Telephone: +1 (650) 949 6700.

E-mail: ATM Forum <info@atmforum.com>.

http://atmforum.com/.

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The ATM Forum brings to the MFA Forum a body of over 200 ATM technical specifications; a core group of industry experts in control-signaling, interworking and transport & services architectures; a global reputation for producing high quality, technology specifications; and a 14-year track record in market awareness and education activities that have helped make ATM one of the most widely deployed and trusted transport infrastructures.
SAN FRANCISCO -- The ATM Forum and the MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance announced today that their respective memberships have approved the merger of the two organizations.
SALT LAKE CITY -- In a joint announcement today, the MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance and The ATM Forum unveiled plans to form a single organization to advance the deployment of multi-vendor, multi-service, packet-based networks, associated applications and interworking solutions.
 
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