Performance Evaluations in the Bali Atm-network

In 1993 the interconnection of three local ATM-based networks in Berlin was initiated by DeTeBerkom , the Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (GMD) and the Technical University of Berlin (TUB). This paper describes the goals of this Berlin ATM LAN Interconnection (BALI) [Hartenthaler 94] and presents first results. Section 1 introduces the infrastructure of the BALI network in its current and its accomplished state. Section 2 summarizes the technical goals of BALI. These goals include work that will be performed within the German Research Network (DFN) ATM-trial. The third section describes the test-configurations for the performance evaluations of the ATM-network, and presents first results of the evaluations. The last section contains a summary of the work that will be performed in the near future. 1. BALI Infrastructure BALI is based on three local ATM networks at the sites of DeTeBerkom, GMD (FOKUS) and TUB (FSP-PV/TUBKOM) in Berlin. Ethernet FSP-PV PRZ FDDI TUBKOM FDDI