High-Speed Cisco Networks: Planning, Design, and Implementation covers LAN/WAN technology and its benefits. The book lays out Cisco's complete line of products and describes their features and best applications. It provides critical details on routers and servers, switches and hubs, security products, network management tools, ATM products, other services and programs, and Internetwork Operating Systems (IOS). Cisco's routers, hubs, and switches are the core of the Internet and today's high-speed networks. Armed with this independent evaluation, the reader can design high-speed networks that meet current needs and scale to future requirements with confidence.
LAN users are requiring higher performance networks to deal with increasing network size, increasing speed requirements of attached devices, and network saturation. This volume explores the currently available performace-enhancing network technologies--and is the first book to cover the newest high-speed technology, 100VG-AnyLAN.
Networking Explained 2e offers a comprehensive overview of computer networking, with new chapters and sections to cover the latest developments in the field, including voice and data wireless networking, multimedia networking, and network convergence. Gallo and Hancock provide a sophisticated introduction to their subject in a clear, readable format. These two top networking experts answer hundreds of questions about hardware, software, standards, and future directions in network technology. - Wireless networks - Convergence of voice and data - Multimedia networking
This book is supposed to serve as a comprehensive and instructive guide through the new world of digital communication. On the physical layer optical and electrical cabling technology are described as well as wireless communication technologies. On the data link layer local area networks (LANs) are introduced together with the most popular LAN technologies such as Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI, and ATM as well as wireless LAN technologies including IEEE 802.x, Bluetooth, or ZigBee. A wide range of WAN technologies are covered including contemporary high speed technologies like PDH and SDH up to high speed wireless WANs (WiMAX) and 4th generation wireless telephone networks LTE. Routing technologies conclude the treatment of the data link layer. Next, there is the Internet layer with the Internet protocol IP that establishes a virtual uniform network out of the net of heterogeneous networks. In detail, both versions, IPv4 as well as the successor IPv6 are covered in detail as well as ICMP, NDP, and Mobile IP. In the subsequent transport layer protocol functions are provided to offer a connection-oriented and reliable transport service on the basis of the simple and unreliable IP. The basic protocols TCP and UDP are introduced as well as NAT, the network address translation. Beside transport layer security protocols like SSL and TLS are presented. On the upmost application layer popular Internet application protocols are described like DNS, SMTP, PGP, (S)FTP, NFS, SSH, DHCP, SNMP, RTP, RTCP, RTSP, and World Wide Web.
ISDN will solve the problems every telecommuter, small business and home office user faces today: too many expensive phone lines, not enough speed and access to information. With a single ISDN line from the phone company, you can fax/phone/surf the net/videoconference at ten times the speed of one normal phone line. The CD-ROM includes the complete book text in searchable Adobe Acrobat format, plus the 500+ page North American ISDN Users Forum Application Catalog.
As computer networks grow, network managers and system administrators are challenged to improve their network's performance. This book offers multi-vendor, multi-protocol, heterogeneous tools for evaluating and improving network performance. KEY TOPICS: Covers the fundamentals of network performance analysis; the parameters found in media such as Ethernet, Token Ring and FDDI; interconnect devices such as hubs, bridges, routers, and Ethernet switches; wide area technologies such as T-!, Frame Relay, and X.25; server architecture; and the application of practical tools such as LOTUS 123, MathCAD, and PlanNet to real network performance problems. MARKET: For network administrators, network designers, network performance analysts, and network consultants.
The Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), from the Open Software Foundation (OSF), will be the predominant middleware for developing distributed applications in the foreseeable future. But the DCE application programming interface (API) is complex and a barrier to its adoption. This book provides guidelines and tools to lessen the complexity of using the DCE, and to permit it to be used from other programming languages, such as COBOL. Covers the new facilities in the OSF DCE 1.1 Release that eases the development and management of application servers, the management of network communications, the location of resources, and the enforcement of security.
These days, networks and information systems are more than just technological service segments of a company. They are vital variables in the business equation. This book takes a business-first approach to networks, focusing on how to analyze, implement and manage local area networks. Drawing on extensive case studies, it provides a thorough examination of the business application, data, network, and technology issues surrounding the successful implementation of local area network-based client/server systems. It also provides working models readers can use to organize their own systems.
Now that Sun, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and SCO have all agreed to use HP VUE as their desktop, there is great interest in techniques for customizing HP VUE. This book explains how to shape HP VUE to meet the requirements of a particular work environment, and in doing so, turn the computer into a personal productivity tool. Covers front panel modifications, application integration, startup configuration, and performance tuning. For system managers and end users who want to shape their HP VUE environment.
