SONET, ATM, and Frame Relay - HELP!

Hi everybody! This is the best tech forum I have ever used...I owe it so much!

I dare to ask: Could somebody offer me a concise and powerful definition of each of these guys listed in the subject line...I've got a textbook on this stuff, yet I'm not getting any real world scenarios, just a definition for provisioning.

I'm studying constantly right now, so I might answer my own question, but, nonetheless, your opinions really help out. Using microsoft.com, help files, and this forum helped me to ace the OS part of the a+ exam this morning.

P.S. Any insights would be great too! I know that more than a few geniuses hanging around this website.

Tkx, charwell

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pandimus

Honstly i cant remember if this stuff was on the network + test..

Webmaster

They are all described in our WAN Technologies TechNotes:

www.techexams.net/technotes/networkplus/wantech.shtml

Exam Objectives wrote:

2.11 Identify the basic characteristics (e.g., speed, capacity, media) of the following WAN technologies:
- Packet switching vs. circuit switching
- ISDN
- FDDI (Covered in another TechNote here.)
- ATM
- Frame Relay
- Sonet/SDH
- T1/E1
- T3/E3
- OCx

pandimus

duh,,, to me...