Demystifying Virtual Private Networks [Paperback]

Mike Busby (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 25, 2000

Demystifying VPN is intended to help those individuals with little or no knowledge of internetworking understand VPNs and how they fit into the overall networking environment that includes TCP/IP. The material is presented in a logical fashion, beginning with the basic business reasons for selecting VPNs as a communications solution to the fundamentals of networking and the complexities of VPNs. The material also focuses on the Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol that form the software platform on which VPNs are based, and the Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol, which is the network protocol supporting VPNs.

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About the Author

Michael Busby is an electrical engineer and technical writer in Plano, Texas. He is a consultant; the president of Global Network Services, an international telecommunications company; and the author of Demystifying ATM/ADSL and Demystifying TCP/IP (3e).

Product Details

• Paperback: 250 pages
• Publisher: Wordware Publishing, Inc.; 1st edition (October 25, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1556226721
• ISBN-13: 978-1556226724
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,679,672 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Hello. Thanks for visiting my biography. I was born a long time ago in a far, far away land. Well, not really so long ago and not so far away but, with the dramatic changes in the United States the past 30 years, it does seem long ago and far away. I was born in north Texas near Red River, the Texas-Oklahoma border. I grew up swimming and fishing in Red River. Although I am a Texan by birth, I have so much Red River mud in me, I think I am half-Okie. After high school I volunteered for the United States Marine Corps. I served 8 years in the Corps. During my service I began my college education, eventually graduating from the University of Texas at Dallas. After the Marine Corps, I began work as an engineer with Rockwell International. I worked for Rockwell for 14 years. During my Rockwell years I traveled the world and worked long-term projects in Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and England. On 04 November 1979 I escaped from a firing squad in Teheran early that morning and eventually made my way to a friendly embassy where I remained in hiding for four days before escaping the country dressed as a Lufthansa crew member.

After working for Rockwell, I worked contract jobs around the world finally settling in Plano, Texas for awhile. Then I migrated to Maryland and worked five years as a contractor for the Naval Air Warfare Center - Aircraft Division. In December 2009 I returned to Texas and am currently residing in McKinney, Texas.

My profession has been electrical engineering with a concentration in hardware and software development primarily in the aerospace industry but I do have experience and patents in other industries including automotive, video, telecommunications, networking, and avionics. I have performed in roles ranging from field engineer to Director of Engineering to Vice-President of Engineering to Chief Executive Officer.

In the 1990's I started writing as a way to express myself. The first book I wrote was Flashing Miss Dixie. I wrote Flashing Miss Dixie in two weeks during the Christmas break in 1998. No, it is not a book about raincoats and dirty ole men! It is a humorous book about five fun-loving teenage boys who use an old camera with flash attachment to flash gentlemen who give spirited chase in order to retrieve the "valuable evidence" when unexpectedly caught in compromising situations with a local paramour of ill repute. Those boys loved a good chase better than anything else (well, almost). After Flashing Miss Dixie I continued to work full time as an engineer but a publisher offered me the opportunity to write some technical books. I took advantage of the opportunity and wrote several more books.

I had opportunity to write even more books but a crumbling marriage combined with the onset of diabetes (untreated for five years) and a dead gallbladder diverted my attention for awhile. The last book I wrote, Solving The 1897 Airship Mystery, coincided with my divorce in 2003. I had spent almost ten years researching the airship mystery.

Now I am writing a work of fiction titled Saawariya (Oh, My Beloved). The novel will be published in 2011. Saawariya is a love story unique in the betrayal the protagonist suffers at the hands of his lover. I hope you buy a copy and enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.