Advanced Internet Technologies - Hardcover

Black, Uyless

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0137595158 ISBN 13: 9780137595150

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1998

Synopsis

From the perspective of telecommunications professionals, examines the technology relating to the growing transition of network providers from traditional circuit-switched networks to IP-based, packet- switched networks. Describes the Internet's architecture, protocols, and traffic characteristics; and reviews the key issues in transforming the Internet from its data-only roots to a multi-service network that can handle voice, video, and multimedia with comparable quality and reliability. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

About this title

About the Author

Uyless Blackis a widely-known and respected consultant and lecturer on computer networks and data communications. He is author of all the books in the Series in Advanced Communications Technologies.

From the Back Cover

The complete engineer's guide to packet-switched Internet communications!

As the Internet revolutionizes telecommunications, network providers are transitioning from traditional circuit-switched networks to IP-based packet-switched networks. In this book, globally respected author Uyless Black introduces advanced Internet technology and the challenges of Internet communications from the unique perspective of the telecommunications professional.

Black covers the Internet's architecture, protocols, and traffic characteristics, and reviews the key issues involved in transforming the Internet from its data-only roots to a true multi-service network that can handle voice, video and multimedia with comparable quality and reliability. He covers every key IP protocol technology likely to play a major role in tomorrow's Internet, including:

• Voice-over-IP
• MPEG-2 and the H.32x series of multimedia
• Layer 3 Switching, including both leading approaches-tag switching and IP switching
• IPv6
• IP multicasting protocols and systems, including IGMP and MBONE
• Multi-service protocols, including RSVP, RTP and RTCP

Black presents detailed coverage of routing, route discovery and traffic integrity operations; as well as state-of-the-art techniques for minimizing packet delay. He also takes a detailed look at Mobile IP: where it stands as a solution for wireless Internet connectivity and where it's headed. Whether you're already involved in Internet service development, or you expect to be, Advanced Internet Technologies brings together all the information you need to succeed.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0137595158
• ISBN 13: 9780137595150
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 346