Network Design Using Econets [Paperback]

Roshan L. Sharma (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1997

The main purpose of this book is to provide an introduction to the design of modern enterprise networks for voice, data, and image and video applications using an internationally known, classroom-tested user-friendly software package, EcoNets. To achieve that purpose, a balanced discussion of the theory and a proven network design methodology based on EcoNets is provided for all types of modern networks.

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From the Publisher

Now, here is a comprehensive, hands-on guide to EcoNets, a versatile software development tool for all enterprise network designers. The author clearly guides you through everything you need to know and do - to build a cost-effective network of any kind for any enterprise.

One can now apply proven methodologies to design, model and implement all types of practical networks quickly and economically, using integrated broadband technologies that support voice, data, image, and video applications with equal facility. One will also get actual hands-on design procedures for automatic call distribution (ACD), common channel signaling (CCS), personal communication systems (PCS) and other enterprise-essential systems.

One can now master network theory without the mathematical complexity as you go directly to modeling a variety of topologies for optimum cost effectiveness.

One can now answer tough questions about any networking system with practical guidance and clearly-explained concepts, reinforced by numerous examples and exercises - all of which are stored as text files on the accompanying diskette, which also includes a network design application software, EcoNets.

From the Author

This book represents a major revision of Network Topology Optimization - The Art and Science of Network Design as published by Van Nostrand Reinhold in 1990. Chapter 6 that dealt with the EcoNets software is completely revised to reflect the numerous improvements made as a result of the suggestions made by hundreds of graduate students since 1991. This textbook is presently used for a nationwide course entitled Telecommunications Network Design as offered by Southern Methodist University and National Technological University. The course employs several distance education technologies. Some students take this course in several foreign countries using delayed videotapes. Several foreign universities also provide similar courses based on this textbook and/or the 1990 textbook also written by the Author. The new textbook comes with a diskette containing the educational version and all the supporting files described in the textbook. Therefore, the textbook is immediately useful for hands-on training at one's own pace.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 553 pages
• Publisher: Coriolis Group (Sd); Pap/Dis edition (September 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1850329079
• ISBN-13: 978-1850329077
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,753,989 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The book is a good user's guide to Econets software., August 24, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Network Design Using Econets (Paperback)

This book, when coupled with the software, makes for a very useful tool in the hands of anyone who needs to plan a network while considering multiple variables, such as cost, bandwidth, and topology. I am not a network genius, but in a very short time I was able to design and create multiple iterations of a network to meet various parameters.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive source book for the network designer, August 25, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Network Design Using Econets (Paperback)

Professor Sharma's book, Network Design Using EcoNets, is a synthesis of his many years of experience in network design. His book provides you the foundation, definitions, and quantification to do real world network design with his EcoNets tool.

EcoNets, his interactive network design program, included with the book, is the physical embodiment of Professor Sharma's years of experience. Using EcoNets, you will be able to quantify the unquantifiable. That is, you will be able to successfully model and design a variety of networks.

In his book, Professor Sharma walks you through a myriad of design applications. This step-by-step approach gives the novice EcoNets user sufficient savvy to design real world networks.

Part of this book's strength is that it systematically defines many networking buzzwords. For instance, on Page 3 of the text Professor Sharma defines network architecture as consisting of five attributes: geographical coverage, method of access, network topology, transmission or multiplexing techniques, and network management techniques. Each of these is in turn defined. His treatment turns a mere buzzword into a concrete concept usable in the real world.