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Switched Multimegabit Data Service. An emerging high-speed datagram-based public data network service developed by Bellcore and expected to be widely used by telephone companies as the basis for their data networks. See also: Metropolitan Area Network. [Source: RFC1208

(Switched Multimegabit Data Service) is a public, packet-switched service aimed at enterprises that need to exchange large amounts of data with other enterprises over the wide-area network on a nonconstant or "bursty" basis. SMDS provides an architecture for this kind of data exchange and a set of services. In general, SMDS extends the performance and efficiencies of a company's local area network (LANs) over a wide area on a switched, as-needed basis.

Switched Multimegabit Data Service. High-speed, packet-switched, datagram-based WAN networking technology offered by the telephone companies. See also CBDS.

Switched Multimegabit Data Service. broadband communications standard for the Public Switched Telphone Network.

Common abbreviation for Switched Multimegabit Data Service.

Switched Multimegabit Data Service. A high-speed intraLATA data transport service by which public networks can transport information quickly across areas wider than those served by local area networks. This packet-switching data service provides wide area data transport up to 45 Mbps. SMDS offers group addressing connectionless transport and strict packet delay objectives.

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SMDS is a high-speed, fast packet-switched service provided in a campus, or ring, type arrangement situated within a 50-mile radius.

An acronym that stands for Symmetric Multi-Megabit Data Service.

Switched Multimedia Data Service. A Bellcore data MAN service offered by telecommunications carriers.

Switched Multimegabit Data Service. A high-speed networking technology that provides data transmission at rates from 1.544 to 45 megabits per second.

Switched Multimegabit Data Service. A packet-based network service allowing the creation of high-speed data networks (up to 45 Mbit/s). Now in the testing and initial implementation phases.

A public packet-switched high-speed data service that extends LAN-like performance to MANs and WANs with no distance limit. Although reflecting DQDB MAN standards, SMDS can also run over ATM. It offers variable data packet size, Virtual Private Network and Closed User Group features, transmission rates up to 34Mbit/s today and 150Mbit/s in the future.

Switch Multi megabit Data Service is the new standard for extremely high-speed data transfer

Acronym for Switched Multimegabit Data Service. Yet another standard for very high-speed data transfer.

A new standard for very high-speed data transfer. SMEs (Small to Medium Enterprises) — a broad classification of businesses defined by revenue. The range used by one major corporation's consulting division (IBM) includes businesses between $1 and $500 million. SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)—The standard protocol for transmitting Internet e-mail.

Switched multimegabit data service. A connectionless, high-speed data service offered by most telephone companies that allows LANs to connect across a wide area network. Other common WAN services include frame relay, PPP, and X.25.

Switched Multimegabit Data Service. High-speed, packet-switched, datagram-based WAN networking technology offered by the telephone companies. SMDS was to be the basis for MREN, the high speed network connecting the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory, and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.

Switched Multimegabit Data Service – High speed switched data service available from BT. Capable of data rates up to 34Mbps

Switched Multimegabit Data Service. A public packet switching service used by telephone companies in major metropolitan areas.

Pronounced "smuds," SMDS is a high-speed, datagram-based, public data network. SMDS currently allows several remotely located LANs to communicate with each other at 45Mbps (T-3) speeds.

switched multi-megabit data service - a public switched Broadband data service providing inter-site connectivity of, for example, Local Area Networks (LANs), and mainframe computers, at multi-megabit speeds.

(Switched Multimegabit Data Service- A standard for a very high speed data transfer.

(Switched Multimegabit Data Service) – High-speed, packet-switched , datagram-based WAN networking technology offered by telephone companies. To top

Switched Multi-megabit Data Service. A Telco based public offering beginning in 1991 used to connect LANs into MAN (Metropolitan Area Networks), and WANs (Wide Area Networks). Known as the first B-ISDN service. SMDS carries data traffic only. (7/96)

A high-speed data transmission service that provides wide area connectivity through the public telephone network.

(Switched Multi megabit Data Service) A new standard for very high-speed data transfer. SMTP - (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) The method by which the Internet delivers mail from one computer to another.

Switched Multi-Megabit Data Service (defines a high speed, public network based, cell data service)

Switched Multi-megabit Data Service is a high-speed Metropolitan-Area Networking technology that behaves like a LAN.

Switched Multi-megabit Data Service. A precursor to ATM that is capable of shared service at bandwidth levels from 56K to FT3.

Switched Multimegabit Data Service. A new standard for very high-speed data transfer. SMDS Interest Group

Switched Multimegabit Data Service. A high-speed packet-switching service that is usually delivered over T-1-or, more often, T-3-circuits. It allows multiple sites to communicate with each other at high speeds. SMDS transmission rates start at 1.54 Mbps and run up to 45 Mbps.

Switched Multimegabit Data Service. A new standard for extremely high-speed data transfer (up to 34 Mbps). Back to the top

(Switched Multimegabit Data Service) - A new high-speed data transfer standard.

(Switched Multimegabit Data Service) -- A high-speed, fiber-based LAN interconnection service that allows users to use a public network service to allocate wide area bandwidth as it is needed.

A type of high-speed digital communications protocol.

A specification for a connectionless packet-switched data service.

(Switched Multimegabit Data Service) -- An emerging standard for high-speed data transfer.

Switched Multimegabit Data Service. An emerging high-speed datagram-based public data network servicedeveloped by Bellcore and expected to be widely used by telephonecompanies as the basis for their data networks. See also:Metropolitan Area Network.[Source: RFC1208] Synchronous Connection

Switched Multimegabit Data Service. A high-speed data communications service developed by Bell core for connecting local area networks over the public telephone lines.

A high-speed, packet-switched, datagram-based WAN networking technology that is offered by some telephone companies. It operates from 1.544Mbps to 44.736Mbps.

SMDS, which stands for Switched Multi-megabit Data Services, was a connectionless service used to connect LANs, MANs and WANs to exchange data. SMDS was based on the IEEE 802.6 DQDB standard. SMDS fragmented its datagrams into smaller "cells" for transport, and can be viewed as a technological precursor of ATM.