ATM, Volume I: Foundation for Broadband Networks (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)

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ATM Volume I is a book for propeller heads like you and me, who are really fascinated by this stuff, people to whom data is data, and whose concern is that bits get lovingly wrapped and posted to their ultimate destination.

Genuine propeller-head books seem always to be printed on that heavy absorbent paper. I guess it's because they expect you to have them with you in the field and to spill coffee on them. ATM Volume I shares with other books of the propeller-head genre a few minor defects. The index is a little sparse. There is a table of acronyms in the back, but some acronyms (STP, for example) are overloaded in the text and not all overloads appear in the table.

Who cares? You're going to read this one page by page and absorb it, while the pages absorb your coffee. --Jack Woehr, Dr. Dobb's Journal -- Dr. Dobb's Journal

Product Description

Explains all you need to know: architecture, switching elements, traffic management, & more. Covers many important new ATM enhancements, including MPOA, LAN Emulation, Frame Based ATM, Layer 3 Switching, even Wireless ATM. DLC: Asynchronous transfer mode.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 446 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR; 2 Sub edition (January 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130832189
• ISBN-13: 978-0130832184
• Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.3 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 1.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,508,868 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars worst author in telecom, August 23, 2000

By A Customer

This author is notorious for his skillfulness in copying standards. I really doubt he ever understand the technology he is writing on. Almost any book he wrote and I have read is a big confusion. Reader can buy a ITU standard instead of his expensive book to get the question answered. Advice to novice: avoid this author at all. I just admire his speed in rolling out these books, without violating copyright.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars A Hard to read book, November 2, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: ATM Volume I: Foundation for Broadband Networks (Hardcover)

This the most hard to read book I've ever met. The new people to the ATM will get lost in a short time in the words, and experts of ATM can not find any useful information in a short time. The writer never explain the new concept and abbreviation clearly. It seems that he is not writing this book to let readers read, but murmuring to himself. Don't wast time on this book like the victim as me.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The foundation is crumbling, May 3, 2000

By	Tim Kerssen (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews

This book was assigned as a textbook for a class. Fortunately,the class included lecture because the textbook lacks coherentexplanations for the most basic principles. As an engineeringtextbook, it is quite poor. Explanations are vague and contain little relevant detail. Perhaps the worst feature of the entire book is the index. For a 434 page book, a two page index is not even close to enough. In defense of the index though, those 434 pages are all large type with many useless, cartoonish, redundant illustrations. As a brief overview, this may be adequate. But, for the price, I certainly expect more meat and less fat, something with the quality and content approaching that put out by Stallings or Tanenbaum.