Wide-Area Data Network Performance Engineering (Artech House Telecommunications Library) - Hardcover

Cole, Robert; Ramaswamy, Ravi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0890065691 ISBN 13: 9780890065693

Publisher: Artech House Publishers, 1999

Synopsis

A guide to wide-area data network performance engineering, discussing the skills needed to design a router network carrying a variety of traffic over frame relay devices. It covers routers, protocols, applications, performance engineering, network management and maintenance, and more.

About this title

Synopsis

A guide to wide-area data network performance engineering. It discusses the skills needed to design a router network carrying a variety of traffic, including Internet and intranet, over frame relay devices. It covers routers, protocols including TCP/IP, SNA and Novell, protocol behaviour over a WAN, applications, performance engineering, network management and maintenance, and more. The text offers itself as a resource to keep on hand while operating, maintaining, upgrading, or migrating existing networks. It helps the reader to make difficult decisions involving hardware, software, frame relay and private lines, ATM, and application benchmarking to test new applications on the WAN.

About the Author

Robert Cole is a Technical Manager with AT&T Laboratories and received his BSc. in Professional Physics from the University of Miami and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemical Physics from Iowa State University. Ravi Ramaswamy is a District Manager with AT&T Managed Network Solutions. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Probability from the University of Rochester in New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Artech House Publishers
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0890065691
• ISBN 13: 9780890065693
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 440