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Chapter 1
Overview
Avaya M770 M-ACCF/SF ATM Access Modules User’s Guide
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The ATM cell has 48 bytes of payload (information to be carried) and five bytes of 
header information, making the cell 53 bytes in length. 
The cell header contains the information used by the network to forward each cell to 
its destination. The ATM cell structure is shown in Figure 1.15.
Figure 1.15
ATM Cell Structure
The ATM cell header consists of the following fields:
Generic Flow Control (GFC)
 — Provides local functions, such as flow control over 
the User-to Network Interface (UNI). The value encoded in the GFC is not carried end-
to-end and can be overwritten by the ATM Switch.
Virtual Path Identifier (VPI)
 and Virtual Channel Identifier (VCI) — The VPI/
VCI values allow the network to associate a cell with a given connection, so that the 
cell can be switched to its destination.
Payload Type Identifier (PTI)
 — The PTI is used to indicate whether the cell 
contains user information, or management information. The management 
information is used for resource and network congestion management.
Cell Loss Priority (CLP)
 — The purpose of the Cell Loss Priority (CLP) bit in the 
ATM cell is to indicate that cells with this bit set should be discarded before cells 
which do not have the CLP bit set. Cells can be discarded based on CLP condition 
and according to the network load. When the network overloads, a discard 
mechanism, based on the value of the CLP bit in the cell header, may come into 
operation.
Header Error Check (HEC)
 — The HEC field is used for detecting bit errors in the 
cell header. It is also used for cell delineation, defining where the cell begins in a 
SONET frame. 
GFC
VPI
VCI
PTI
HEC
User Data
Payload
Cell Header
CLP
GFC- Generic FlowControl (on UNI only)
VPI - Virtual Path Identifier
Key
VCI - Virtual Channel Identifer
PTI - Payload Type Identifier
HEC- Header Error Control
CLP- Cell Loss Priority