From the Back Cover:
Lay it out, make it work, and keep it optimal with this encyclopedic guide. To the increasingly complex world of heterogeneous data communication networks, this encyclopedia guide brings a welcome set of maps, directions, and navigation aids. Covering all the bases in networking from layout to tweaking, it provides the practical information and underlying principles needed to attack and restore virtually any problem or design issue. Plus, it gives network architects, engineers, and administrators a generous assortment of ready-made network blueprints. This Encyclopedia shows you how to do it right the first time with any network. Inside, you'll find coverage that helps you: understand networking, from fundamental principles to sophisticated architecture; measure bandwidth in any situation; deploy and integrate data, voice, video, and multimedia; interpret lower-layer, and analyze upper-layer protocols; work with ATM and frame relay; troubleshoot network software, hardware, and peripherals. Written by one of the leading network architects in the industry, Ed Taylor, Encyclopedia of Network Blueprints gives you proven techniques for success at every stage of design, implementation, and maintenance. Whether you are a network manager, architect, engineer, or systems programmer, this authoritative and comprehensive reference provides the network answers that you need.
About the Author:
Ed Taylor is the founder of Information World Inc. He is a former network architect for IBM and has authored The Network Architecture Design Handbook, Multiplatform Network Management, as well as The McGraw-Hill Internetworking Handbook, and TCP/IP Complete.
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