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High-speed networking technology : an introductory survey
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3rd ed
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Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall PTR, 1995
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9780132424219
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Deciding which communication system to adopt for a corporate network can be a daunting task. This book helps in that it discusses the technical concepts of modern high speed communications systems in terms of the basic concepts of the technology and the reasons behind its development.


Table of Contents

1 Introduction
2 A Review of Digital Transmission Technology
Introduction
Electrical Transmission
Practical Transmission
LAN Cabling with Unshielded Twisted Pair
3 High Speed on the Subscriber Loop (HDSL and ADSL)
Discrete Multitone Transmission (DMT)
4 An Introduction to Fiber Optical Technology
5 Traffic Characteristics
6 Principles of High-Speed Networks
Control of Congestion
Transporting Voice in a Packet Network
Transporting Video in a Packet Network
Transporting Images
Transporting Data in Packets or Cells
Connection-Oriented versus Connectionless Networks
Route Determination within the Network
End-to-End Network Protocols
SNA in a High-Speed Network
A Theoretical View
Summary of Packet Network Characteristics
High-Speed Packet and Cell Switching Architectures
7 Private Networks in the High-Speed Environment
8 High-Speed Time Division Multiplexing Systems
Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN)
SDH and Sonet
The Bandwidth Fragmentation Problem
Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy
9 Cell-Based Networking Systems (ATM)
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
The Structure of an ATM Network
The ATM Adaptation Layer (AAL)
ATM Status
Practical ATM
10 High-Speed Circuit-Switching Systems
The IBM ESCON Channel Architecture
11 High-Speed Packet Networking
Frame Switching
Frame Relay
Packetised Automatic Routing Integrated System (PARIS)
12 plaNET/Orbit - A Gigabit Prototype Network
13 Shared Media Systems (LANs and MANs)
Basic Principles
100 Megabit "Ethernet"/IEEE 802.3
100VG AnyNet - IEEE 802.12 (100BaseVG)
Isochronous Ethernet
Token-Ring
Fiber Distributed Data Interface (FDDI)
FDDI on Copper Wire (SDDI/CDDI)
FDDI-II
DQDB/SMDS - Distributed Queue Dual Bus
14 Radio LAN Technology
Building a Radio LAN System
Radio LAN Systems
15 The Frontiers of LAN Research
MetaRing
CyclicReservation Multiple Access (CRMA)
CRMA-II
16 Lightwave Networks
WDM for LANs and MANs
Some Possible Systems Approaches
MuxMaster - A WDM WAN Research Prototype
17 LAN Hub Development
Appendix A Review of Basic Principles
Available Techniques
Characteristics of Multiplexing Techniques
Appendix B Transmitting Information by Modulating a Carrier
Appendix C Queueing Theory
Appendix D Getting the Language into Synch
Appendix E Abbreviations
Bibliography