Practical Network Design Techniques: A Complete Guide For WANs and LANs

by Gilbert Held, S. Ravi Jagannathan

Overview

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 p

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135492045
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	06/11/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	344
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Gilbert Held, S. Ravi Jagannathan

Table of Contents

Introduction. WIDE AREA NETWORK DESIGN TECHNIQUES. Transmission characteristics. Wide area network line facilities and economic tradeoffs. Multiplexing, routing, and line sharing equipment. Locating data concentration equipment. Multidrop line routing techniques. Sizing communications equipment and line facilities. LOCAL AREA NETWORK DESIGN TECHNIQUES. LAN devices. LAN topologies. A tutorial on the Ethernet family of LANs. Ethernet performance characteristics. Issues at the network, transport and application layers. Wireless LANs. LAN internetworking issues.