Empowered by today's high-performance computers interconnected over LANs and WANs, companies are faced with the daunting task of bringing workability to the diversity and complexity of today's data communications landscape. This comprehensive resource addresses key network management challenges, showing how to: tie together incompatible LANs; meld legacy systems and LANs; extend the reach of LANs with wireless links; protect information assets from various disaster scenarios; and consolidate multi-protocol traffic over a single WAN backbone in a way that guarantees appropriate service levels.
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Nathan J. Muller is a managing partner and consultant at the Ascent Solutions Group, LLC in Sterling, VA. He is also the author of IP Convergence: The Next Revolution in Telecommunications, Desktop Encyclopedia of the Internet, Wireless Data Networking, and Intelligent Hubs (Artech House, 2000, 1999, 1995, 1994).
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Local area networks (LAN) were develop in the 1980s, starting with Ethernet and quickly followed by token ring and others. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
network documentation tools, sending protocol entity, explorer packet, translation bridging, printer catalog, clear channel capability, dedicated token ring, name server zones, needs analyzer, call accounting systems, radio nodes, root bridge, scheduler agent, hub company, bipolar violations, frame relay network, dial backup, network restoration, frame relay service, hard zones, telecom manager, redundant subsystems, configuration messages, device library, wireless bridges Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet, North Bridge, Fast Ethernet, Big Sister, Intruder Alert, Restoration Planni, Tivoli Storage Network Manager, United States, Global Dispatch, Ring Ring, Spanning Tree Protocol, Connecting Portland, Fluke Networks, Managing Bridges, Network Mapper, Visio Professional New!
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Local area networks (LAN) were develop in the 1980s, starting with Ethernet and quickly followed by token ring and others. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
network documentation tools, sending protocol entity, explorer packet, translation bridging, printer catalog, clear channel capability, dedicated token ring, name server zones, needs analyzer, call accounting systems, radio nodes, root bridge, scheduler agent, hub company, bipolar violations, frame relay network, dial backup, network restoration, frame relay service, hard zones, telecom manager, redundant subsystems, configuration messages, device library, wireless bridges Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet, North Bridge, Fast Ethernet, Big Sister, Intruder Alert, Restoration Planni, Tivoli Storage Network Manager, United States, Global Dispatch, Ring Ring, Spanning Tree Protocol, Connecting Portland, Fluke Networks, Managing Bridges, Network Mapper, Visio Professional New!
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- Smart Card Security and Applications (Artech House Telecommunications Library) by Mike Hendry in Back Matter
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- Broadband Local Loops for High-Speed Internet Access (Artech House Telecommunications Library) by Maurice Gagnaire in Back Matter
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