used or not in a connection is up to the vendor of the protocol stack that uses the ATM
hardware in a network topology. Given the popularity of the AAL5 protocol, the format of
its protocol data unit (PDU) at the segmentation and reassembly (SAR) level is shown in
Figure 14.7. Recall that a block of higher-level data is encapsulated in a PDU at the con-
vergence sublayer. This PDU is then passed to the SAR sublayer where it is segmented
into a 48-byte “chunks” so that it can be transported in the payload area of an ATM cell.
What is shown in Figure 14.7 is the format of AAL5’s SAR PDU. As can be seen, ...
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