RFC 1483:Multiprotocol encap over AAL5
One of the many reasons in addition to lane why
people run screaming from atm (actually, if you
only do pvcs, atm is easy and reliable AND can
do 9K and even 64k mtus).  I’m no 1483 expert.
There are many variations involving routed and
bridged pdus.  Basically, bridged is used by SPs
who need to connect ethernets via an atm cloud.
What Marconi’s gige int does: useless for us.
Juniper does minimal routed subset w/1 ip addr
good only for dslams.  Others as well, complex.