High Performance Switches and Routers

by H. Jonathan Chao, Bin Liu

As Internet traffic grows and demands for quality of service become stringent, researchers and engineers can turn to this go-to guide for tested and proven solutions. This text presents the latest developments in high performance switches and routers, coupled with step-by-step design guidance and more than 550 figures and examples to enable readers to grasp all the theories and algorithms used for design and implementation.

640 pages, Hardcover

First published June 30, 1980

Reviews

[Nick Black]

We covered several of Chao's papers in CS7260 (Design of Fast Networking Devices). I've got some good pictures from that class:

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This book looks to be an in-depth follow-on to Varghese's instant classic, Networking Algorithmics. Huzzah!