Communications for Cooperating Systems: Osi, Sna, and Tcp/Ip (Addison-Wesley Systems Programming Series) - Hardcover

Cypser, R. J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0201507757 ISBN 13: 9780201507751

Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 1991

Synopsis

Provides the first authoritative description of IBM's approach to supplying networking services in a heterogeneeous, multi-vendor environment. Cypser describes how SNA (IBM's network architecture) can be strategically intergrated with international standards and other existing protocols, such as TCP/IP.

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This book provides the first comprehensive description of IBM's new computing paradigm to supply network services in a heterogenous, multivendor environment. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with the top technical staffs at IBM's eleven laboratories, the author presents a detailed vision of where the industry requirements and technology will take networks in the coming years. This includes the evolution of an open systems network architecture that develops commonality amidst growing diversity. This approach incorporates newer technologies, and integrates international standards, such as OSI, with the dominant existing protocols such as SNA, TCP/IP, and NetBIOS. Highlights of the book include:

Presents a high-level architectural structure that encompasses and harmonizes current and future communications facilities.

Provides a top-down view of the multiprotocol layers of networks, starting with the user perspective and working down to the link level.

Clarifies in depth the OSI architecture and its relationships to SNA

Examines the multiprocol system-management process, and the use of common services such as X.500 directories, X.400 messaging, and distributed data services.

Explains the objective and technical approaches of the Advanced Peer-to-Peer Network, and its relation to SNA subarea networks.

Analyzes the various means for interoperation of local area and wide area subnetworks

Describes the coming high-speed technologies and their place in the larger network architectures.

The book is essential reading for systems engineers, those involved in network planning and design, and serious students of telecommunications. It will also be of interest to anyone wanting a technical insight into IBM's forward-looking networking strategy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201507757
• ISBN 13: 9780201507751
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 600