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Introducing Systems Network Architecture - Softcover

Gee, K.C.E.

 
9780850125023: Introducing Systems Network Architecture

Synopsis

IBM's Systems Network Architecture (SNA) has now been around for more than a decade. Over that period it has become increasingly important, having a growing effect on other manufacturers designing products for computer networks; and contributing to the drive towards producing standards for interconnecting computer systems (SNA has influenced the pace of development of Open Systems Interconnection Standards). Today SNA is a complicated concept implemented in many products. This book concentrates on the underlying philosophy and structure, rather than on the associated hardware and software. The architecture evolves slowly but there are many ways of implementing it. This book, an update of parts of "Proprietary Network Architectures" (NCC, 1981), considers network architectures in general and then explores specific SNA features and products. SNA links with OSI are also discussed, and there is brief speculation about the future.

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