Atm: Internetworking With Atm (Prentice Hall Series in Advanced Communications Technologies) - Hardcover

Black, Uyless

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0137841825 ISBN 13: 9780137841820

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1997

Synopsis

This volume explores specific approaches for interconnecting multiple ATM networks and ways to deploy ATM in stages. Readers will learn about options for running TCP/IP traffic over ATM, including IP traffic of ATM, classical IP over ATM, multiprotocol over ATM, and the LAN emulation approach.

About this title

About the Author

UYLESS BLACK is a widely known and respected consultant and lecturer on computer networks and data communications. With clients throughout the world, including the local and interchange carriers in the USA, Nortel in Canada, and British Telecom in the UK, he has extensive operations and implementation experience in both public and private networks. He is the author of numerous Prentice Hall titles, and founder of the Advanced Communications Technology series.

From the Back Cover

The explosive growth of computer networks in recent years has created a collage of systems that may or may not be able to communicate with each other. In this third volume of the ATM series, Uyless Black shows how ATM can provide other networks with a high-quality, high-speed interface to support effective internetworking.

ATM Volume III provides a comprehensive overview of current, prominent networks, and how they can be integrated with ATM to improve traffic throughput. A survey of existing protocols, address resolution protocols, and encapsulation headers leads to the description of ATM/frame internetworking operations.

Further discussions include:

• Current LAN and WAN protocols
• Encapsulation and address resolution operations
• Classical IP over ATM
• DXI and FUNI
• Frame relay and ATM: Service Internetworking and Network Internetworking
• LAN emulation (LANE) and LANE NNI (LNNI)
• Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP)
• Multicast Address Resolution Protocol (MARS)
• Multiprotocol over ATM (MPOA)

Trusted telecommunications expert Uyless Black is known worldwide for his straight talk about complex technologies. This third volume in the ATM library is sure to be another classic for working engineers as well as students.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0137841825
• ISBN 13: 9780137841820
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236