ATM Solutions for Enterprise Internetworking (2nd Edition)

Should you deploy ATM ? will ATM support your existing application environment ? Do you know if you should choose the Classical Model or LAN Emulation ? And just how do you implement ATM as part of your existing network ? And how does ATM compare with other high speed technologies ? This completely updated new edition of ATM: Solutions for Enterprise Internetworking tries to answer these questions and more.

David Ginsburg's book is a practical guide to ATM implementation, focussing strongly on how to integrate ATM within your existing enterprise network. It focusses on the practical aspects of ATM - How to deploy ATM in support of data, voice and video traffic; How to support applications and services across the ATM network; Which standards are relevant and what is their status; Which devices should be deployed for any given application environment. All of these solutions are backed up by extensive implementation scenarios, covering hardware, topologies, configurations, data models and application support.

This new edition includes:
* Updated data models, including Label Switching/Tag, IP Switching, and PPP over ATM
* Expanded sections on voice and video integration
* New section detailing ATM over ADSL in the local loop
* Expanded implementation examples
* Updated sections on switch architectures and requirements

David Ginsburg is currently vice president of Marketing and Product Management for Allegro Networks, a Silicon Valley startup that is building the first multi-router system. Prior to joining Allegro, he was a vice president of Marketing at Nortel Networks. He went to Nortel via its acquisition of Shasta Networks, where he was a founding member of Shasta's marketing team that defined the industry's first broadband-services strategy. Before joining Shasta, Dave was with Cisco Systems as product manager for their DSL aggregator platform. Earlier roles at Cisco included WAN and LAN consulting engineering for key customers, at which time he was responsible for LAN switching, as well as ATM standardization and deployment. Dave is the author of two other books in the field of networking, both of which are available from Addison-Wesley. 0201343029AB11272001