The authors of Practical Network Design Techniques, Second Edition: A Complete Guide for WANs and LANs build upon the popular first edition by combining pre-existing network design fundamentals with new material on LAN devices and topologies, wireless local networks, and LAN internetworking issues. This new edition has two parts. The first p
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Gilbert Held, S. Ravi Jagannathan
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Introduction. WIDE AREA NETWORK DESIGN TECHNIQUES. Transmission characteristics. Wide area network line facilities and economic tradeoffs. Multiplexing, routing, and line sharing equipment. Locating data concentration equipment. Multidrop line routing techniques. Sizing communications equipment and line facilities. LOCAL AREA NETWORK DESIGN TECHNIQUES. LAN devices. LAN topologies. A tutorial on the Ethernet family of LANs. Ethernet performance characteristics. Issues at the network, transport and application layers. Wireless LANs. LAN internetworking issues.