High Performance Networks: Technology and Protocols / Edition 1

by Ahmed N. Tantawy

Overview

In the last few years, the world of information networks has undergone significant changes that will revolutionize the future of communications. Data rates have reached the gigabit per second range. Optical fibers have become the transmission medium of choice. Standardization activities have very aggressively produced a set of well established standard for future LANs, MANs and WANs. It has become very difficult for computer and communications professionals to follow these rapidly evolving technologies and standards.
High Performance Networks: Technology and Prools provides a timely technical overview of the start-of-the-art in high performance networking. Chapters cover lightweight prools, high performance prool implementation techniques, high speed MAC prools, optical networks, as well as emerging standards, including ATM, SMDS, B-ISDN, SONET, FCS and HIPPI.
Professionals, engineers, and researchers in communications and computers, who need to understand the underlying technologies of high performance (gigabit) networks, will find this volume to be an invaluable reference. The book is also suitable for use as a text for advanced courses on the subject.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780792393719
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	10/31/1993
Series:	The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science , #237
Edition description:	1994
Pages:	233
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

I High Performance Prools.- 1. A Survey of Light-Weight Prools for High-Speed Networks.- 2. A Survey of High Performance Prool Implementation Techniques.- II Gigabit Lan Technology.- 3. A Survey of MAC Prools for High-Speed LANs.- 4. Optical Network Architectures.- 5. Fibre Channel.- 6. High-Performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI).- III Metropolitan And Wide Area Networks.- 7. Metropolitan Area Networks.- 8. Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network (B-ISDN) Standards.- 9. Synchronous Optical Network SONET.