The authors of Practical Network Design Techniques, Second Edition: A Complete Guide for WANs and LANs build upon the popular first edition by combining pre-existing network design fundamentals with new material on LAN devices and topologies, wireless local networks, and LAN internetworking issues.This new edition has two parts. The first part focuses on wide area networks; the second, which is entirely new, focuses on local area networks. Because Ethernet emerged victorious in the LAN war, the second section pays particular attention to Ethernet design and performance characteristics.The volume retains much valuable information from the first edition, and integrates and prominently highlights WAN information that is also relevant to the LAN design process.To maximize the book's utility, the authors include a number of practical networking problems and their solutions, along with examples of methods needed to perform economic comparisons among differing communications services and hardware configurations. The second edition provides a thorough understanding of major network design problems and is an invaluable reference for data communications professionals.
Author(s): Gilbert Held, S. Ravi Jagannathan
Edition: 2
Publisher: Auerbach Publications
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 368
Tags: Библиотека;Компьютерная литература;Компьютерные сети;
Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 12
1 Introduction......Page 13
I Wide Area Network Design Techniques......Page 18
2 Transmission Characteristics......Page 19
3 Wide Area Networks Line Facilities and Economic Trade-Offs......Page 36
4 Multiplexing, Routing, and Line Sharing Equipment......Page 69
5 Locating Data Concentration Equipment......Page 113
6 Multidrop Line Routing Techniques......Page 131
7 Sizing Communications Equipment and line Facilities......Page 147
II Local Area Network Design Techniques......Page 194
8 Local Area Network Devices......Page 195
9 Local Area Network Topologies......Page 211
10 A Tutorial on the Ethernet Family of Local Area Networks......Page 230
11 Ethernet Performance Characteristics......Page 251
12 Issues at the Network, Transport, adn Application Layers......Page 267
13 Wireless Local Area Networks......Page 281
14 Local Area Network Internetworking Issues......Page 292
Index......Page 306
