Reengineering IBM Networks [Paperback]

Anura Gurug? (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0471142743 | ISBN-13: 978-0471142744 | Publication Date: June 21, 1996 | Edition: 1

A complete, in-depth guide to making the transition to multivendor, multiprotocol networking

Reengineering an IBM legacy network to function effectively in today's world of multivendor, multiprotocol networking is a monumental undertaking. If you've been saddled with this responsibility you'll want all the expert advice and guidance you can get. Now this comprehensive, in-depth, nonpartisan guide gives it to you.

From transparent bridging to ATM, token-ring switching to High-Performance Routing (HPR), Data Link Switching (DLSW) to AnyNet Gateways, Anura Gurug? covers all the bases. He fills you in on all the important concepts, technologies, tools, and techniques you need to master in order to reengineer your legacy network in the safest, most time- and cost-effective way possible.

Offering a full range of proven IBM and non-IBM solutions, he shows you how to bring your IBM legacy networks into the 1990s using proven strategies and techniques from multiple network vendors. You'll find out how to configure your system to:

• Support UNIX and other network operating systems
• Support diverse protocols such as TCP/IP and IPX/SPX
• Operate using advanced broadband communications methods such as Frame Relay and ATM
• And more

Find out everything you need to know to upgrade your IBM legacy network quickly, safely, and cost-effectively with Reengineering IBM Networks.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

This book is designed to serve as a trusted reference guide on how to integrate non-IBM networking technologies in IBM network environments. It explains how to reeengineer traditional IBM networks operating under SNA and APPN protocols into muliprotocol broadband networks using frame relay, ATM, and other advanced techniques. Describes how to evaluate design alternatives and how to build cost-effective and efficient networks. Several chapters describe new broadband architectures being developed by IBM and compare these to non-IBM solutions. Migration strategies are described that show how to combine IBM and non-IBM technologies to build advanced broadband networks.

From the Back Cover

"A complete, in-depth guide to making the transition to multivendor, multiprotocol networking

Reengineering an IBM legacy network to function effectively in today's world of multivendor, multiprotocol networking is a monumental undertaking. If you've been saddled with this responsibility you'll want all the expert advice and guidance you can get. Now this comprehensive, in-depth, nonpartisan guide gives it to you.

From transparent bridging to ATM, token-ring switching to High-Performance Routing (HPR), Data Link Switching (DLSW) to AnyNet Gateways, Anura Gurug covers all the bases. He fills you in on all the important concepts, technologies, tools, and techniques you need to master in order to reengineer your legacy network in the safest, most time- and cost-effective way possible.

Offering a full range of proven IBM and non-IBM solutions, he shows you how to bring your IBM legacy networks into the 1990s using proven strategies and techniques from multiple network vendors. You'll find out how to configure your system to: Support UNIX and other network operating systems Support diverse protocols such as TCP/IP and IPX/SPX Operate using advanced broadband communications methods such as Frame Relay and ATM And more

Find out everything you need to know to upgrade your IBM legacy network quickly, safely, and cost-effectively with Reengineering IBM Networks.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 582 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (June 21, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471142743
• ISBN-13: 978-0471142744
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,299,653 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I was born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) a long time ago, came of age in Britain (an Anglophile to the core), and have lived in the U.S. since 1985.
For over 30 years I tried to make a living in the computer industry and was employed by the likes of IBM, Wang and BBN. Due to a genetic disposition, writing, however, is my weakness. I wrote my first book in 1983, 500 pages in longhand, in pencil, distrusting early PCs and too inept to use a typewriter. It was about a networking architecture, now long obsolete. The book, nonetheless, is still available here. Since then, I have written four other dense books on technology and upwards of 350 published articles.
Sometimes when the planets are propitiously aligned, I produce graphic marketing collateral for select clients and creates image-laden Web sites. I also maintain a number of rather popular blogs. Many are to do with popes but one is about Windows 7!
My first name means 'a guiding light,' while 'Guruge' stands for 'from the house of the teacher.' Both my parents were teachers. I have also taught, albeit grad and post-grad classes. But, this said, I am not sure whether I have ever lived up to my name.
My mother, and since then quite a few others, refered to me as 'Anu.' In my thirties I discovered that Babylonians paid homage to an 'Anu.' My mother was unlikely to have known that. I have never had any desire to change any of my names.
I have a Master's degree in Computer Science from the University of London and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Technology from the University of Wales. Having once lived in the original Hampshire, I now live in New Hampshire.
Web site: www.guruge.com