Apparatus for monitoring asynchronous transfer mode cells in communication systems

Abstract

An apparatus for monitoring asynchronous transfer mode cells in the communication system is proper for recognizing state information of asynchronous transfer mode cells transceiving between a base transceiver station and a base station controller. Accordingly, the apparatus enables to monitor the contents of the cell by comparing VPI/VCI of the ATM cells inputted to the multiplexing/demultiplexing part to the other VPI/VCI latched by hardware, have the cell bus RX I/F count the number of the error-occurring ATM cells by carrying out header error checks of the ATM cells inputted to the cell bus RX/ I/F itself, and find out how long the cell transferring time takes for transceiving loop is found out by transceiving the test ATM cells between the multiplexing/demultiplexing part being the ATM low rate subscriber multiplexing/demultiplexing board assembly (ALMA) and the base transceiver station.

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