Explaining the architecture of SNMP-based ATM network management technology, this text clarifies the details if its existing and evolving standards. It teaches cost-effective enterprise network management solutions, and how various applications running over ATM are managed and deployed. The book explains the fundamentals of ATM network and the SNMP protocol. It overviews the details of the Physical and ATM :ayer, LANE, PNNI, and shows how different standard MIBS and proprietary MIBs are used together to manage an ATM switch.