Atom

 AToM is actually is the abbreviation of a complete term “Any Transport Over MPLS. Cisco is the pioneer who originally developed this technique to transport layer 2 data packets via an IP/MPLS backbone.

This technology has enabled the ISPs to pool up the different data networks like ATM, Ethernet, Frame Relay as well as Serial network(s) to a sole MPLS-Based backbone in order to minimize the operations expenditures. Sometimes, the AtoM is also termed as the Layer 2 MPLS.

Secondly, the Atom is the XML-based is net-based content and metadata format for syndication. It is also known as the application stage publishing protocol to edit the web resource which originally belong to web sites which are constantly updated. It is imperative that all the Atom feed be properly formed XML document and should be identifiable with application.

So the AToM technology got very much popularity amongst the ISPs and they are getting very much benefits while pooling up their different data networks like ATMs, Ethernet, Frame Relay as well as Serial network(s) to a sole MPLS-Based backbone in order to minimize the operations expenditures. Thus this technology is helping its users to maximize their profitability through effective usage of the data resources.