LAN Emulation (LANE)
This area discusses how ATM can be acclimated to accommodate LAN connectivity and to block multiple
VLANs beyond an ATM network. Because ATM is so antithetical to acceptable LAN
technologies, it charge be fabricated to challenge a LAN (hence the name LAN Emulation) through the
use of several processes and components. LANE is an ATM Forum accepted that specifically
provides mechanisms to challenge IEEE 802.3 Ethernet and IEEE 802.5 Token Ring LANs.
These mechanisms are declared in added detail in the afterward sections.
Note that LANE is acclimated alone area LAN functionality is bare at the edges of an ATM
network. Although LANE makes the ATM billow arise to be a LAN, alone built-in ATM is used
on the ATM switches. LANE is congenital as a band on top of ATM so that LANE operation is
transparent to a accepted ATM network.