Practical Network Design Techniques: A Complete Guide For WANs and LANs, Second Edition

by Gilbert Held, S. Ravi Jagannathan

The authors 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 focuses on WANs; the second focuses on LANs. Because Ethernet emerged victorious in the LAN war, the second section pays particular attention to Ethernet design and performance characteristics. The book includes a number of practical networking problems and their solutions, along with examples of methods needed to perform economic comparisons among differing communications services and hardware configurations.

368 pages, Hardcover

First published May 13, 1991