ATM, Volume III: Internetworking with ATM [Hardcover]

Uyless D. Black (Author)

Book Description

Series: ATM | Publication Date: November 1997

This volume will focus on how to connect ATM networks to a variety of other networks. It will start out with a discussion of the various network interfaces (Data Exchange Interface, InterCarrier Interface, Frame Relay User Network Interface (FUNI). Special focus on Frame Relay and TCP/IP WANs. The book also deals with the issue of Lan emulation and how ATM is employed as a hub in a LAN to support the connections of devices and other LANS. This will be part of a slipcase containing all three ATM volumes from Black.

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

The explosive growth of computer networks in recent years has created a collage of systems that may or may not be able to communicate with each other. In this third volume of the ATM series, Uyless Black shows how ATM can provide other networks with a high-quality, high-speed interface to support effective internetworking.

ATM Volume III provides a comprehensive overview of current, prominent networks, and how they can be integrated with ATM to improve traffic throughput. A survey of existing protocols, address resolution protocols, and encapsulation headers leads to the description of ATM/frame internetworking operations.

Further discussions include:

• Current LAN and WAN protocols
• Encapsulation and address resolution operations
• Classical IP over ATM
• DXI and FUNI
• Frame relay and ATM: Service Internetworking and Network Internetworking
• LAN emulation (LANE) and LANE NNI (LNNI)
• Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP)
• Multicast Address Resolution Protocol (MARS)
• Multiprotocol over ATM (MPOA)

Trusted telecommunications expert Uyless Black is known worldwide for his straight talk about complex technologies. This third volume in the ATM library is sure to be another classic for working engineers as well as students.

About the Author

UYLESS BLACK is a widely known and respected consultant and lecturer on computer networks and data communications. With clients throughout the world, including the local and interchange carriers in the USA, Nortel in Canada, and British Telecom in the UK, he has extensive operations and implementation experience in both public and private networks. He is the author of numerous Prentice Hall titles, and founder of the Advanced Communications Technology series.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 1st edition (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0137841825
• ISBN-13: 978-0137841820
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.1 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #242,305 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A very good, concise guide to internetworking with ATM., April 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: ATM, Volume III: Internetworking with ATM (Hardcover)

While this book is not an introduction to ATM (it is, after all, Volume III) I was able to gain a good understanding of how ATM can work together with Frame Relay--a WAN solution I am currently implementing. I found Mr. Black's concise style to be especially helpful.

While techno-speak cannot be avoided in books of this type Mr. Black did a good job of keeping the techno-speak to the point. He did not wander into the endless technical backwaters that so many technical writers seem to love. He provided the technical content to make his point, well-illustrated with charts and diagrams to clarify and reinforce each point.

I believe this book will appeal to those who already know something of ATM and now need to know about the various aspects of internetworking with ATM: LANE, Frame Relay encapsulation, Frame Relay-ATM mapping, MPOA, Next Hop Resolution Protocol, etc. It is not so much a book of ATM how-to as it is of how it all works together.

While I swallowed hard at the price for a book this size, I believe I received good value when I consider how content-rich this book is. I rate this book at 3 and 1/2 stars.

3.0 out of 5 stars The best of this trilogy, June 9, 2002

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This review is from: ATM, Volume III: Internetworking with ATM (Hardcover)

This book is a good closure to Black's ATM trilogy. The poor writing style that characterises these books is less noticable here, with topics recieving terse yet good treatment. The inclusion of low level technical details seems less random and more to the point. The diagrams and illustrations that had previously been one of the few flawless aspects of the series show weak editing here, with typoes and mislabling on a notable fraction of them, but on the whole, the text communicates its information to the student well regardless.

Having come to the end of this trilogy, I would have to recommend that the student of ATM look elsewhere before this series for information on the topic. While Black's books may have been the best resource available at the time they were published, the choices are not so slim now. Black deserves to be lauded for his early digestion of white papers and standards into this series. Still - a month more to polish the writing would have given the books a lasting appeal that they presently lack.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Very poor editing. Poor pagination of figures and text., May 14, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: ATM, Volume III: Internetworking with ATM (Hardcover)

The LANE chapter has numerous errors including a few that totally confuse a reader. In one place the author means multiple Lan Emulation Clients (LECs), but it is presented as "LECS". In figure 9-1, the LEC is labelled LECS, and the text has the LEC registering with the LECS! (Matches diagram, but it should be with the LES).

Wait for the next edition.