Book Description
Definitive guide to networking How do you cope with all the technologies and products that must coexist on the same system? How do you internetwork powerful new ones? You'll find all the answers in Networking Handbook, Ed TaylorÆs A-Z guide that breaks networking down, topic by topic, into easily understood sections. You'll explore the benefits of different network types...network components...and network device operation and integration. Up-to-date coverage keeps you on top of ATM...Serial Line Data Link Protocols... Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet... ISDN...Frame Relay...High Speed Token Ring...XDSL Protocol and Technology...FDDI...Synchronous Data Link...Windows Networking...TCP/IP...SNA...Netware...and Voice over IP. Internetworking troubleshooting tools and case studies give you the edge you need to identify and solve problems on the job.


From the Back Cover

The definitive guide to networking

How do you cope with all the technologies and products that must coexist on the same system? How do you internetwork powerful new ones? You'll find all the answers in Networking Handbook, Ed Taylor's A-Z guide that breaks networking down, topic by topic, into easily understood sections. You'll explore the benefits of different network types, network components, and network device operation and integration. Up-to-date coverage keeps you on top of: ATM Serial Line Data Link Protocols Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet ISDN Frame Relay High Speed Token Ring XDSL Protocol and Technology FDDI Synchronous Data Link Windows Networking TCP/IP SNA Netware Voice over IP Internetworking troubleshooting tools and case studies give you the edge you need to identify and solve problems on the job.


About the Author
Ed Taylor (Dallas, TX) is the Chief Information Architect for Information World, a consulting and network engineering firm. Mr. Taylor has advised companies and has served as a network consultant for several Fortune 500 companies and is a former Network Architect for IBM.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Today's network administrator knows there's an unlimited amount of technologies and products that must coexist on the same system. Yet, how can preexisting and new technologies be internetworked properly and securely?" "The Networking Handbook has the answers you're looking for. It is the definitive hands-on tool that takes the complex and often confusing subject of networking and breaks it down topic by topic into easily understood sections." "This reference provides workable solutions to the internetworking problems that administrators encounter every day. You will find the latest must-have information on internetworking technology, such as: the hottest available data on new technologies such as Gigabit Ethernet, voice over IP, and DSL technology; expanded coverage of ATM, Frame Relay, and more; extended discussions of all the lower-layer and upper-layer protocols; case-study approaches for day-to-day problem-solving strategies, including NT, firewalls, and network switching; invaluable troubleshooting tools to identify internetworking problems; and vendor listings, glossary, and acronym lists.

SYNOPSIS

Definitive guide to networking

How do you cope with all the technologies and products that

must coexist on the same system? How do you internetwork

powerful new ones? You'll find all the answers in Networking

Handbook, Ed TaylorAEs A-Z guide that breaks networking

down, topic by topic, into easily understood sections. You'll explore the benefits of different network types...network components...and network device operation and integration.

Up-to-date coverage keeps you on top of ATM...Serial Line

Data Link Protocols... Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit

Ethernet... ISDN...Frame Relay...High Speed Token

Ring...XDSL Protocol and Technology...FDDI...Synchronous

Data Link...Windows Networking...TCP/IP...SNA...Netware...and Voice over IP.

Internetworking troubleshooting tools and case studies give

you the edge you need to identify and solve problems on the

job.