A technical tutorial and a systematic strategy for corporate managers responsible for approving, recommending, or specifying the purchase of an elaborate, expensive communications network system. Does not compare the merits of available products, but introduces an approach for evaluating their stren

Delivers the hard information the reader needs to assess network options for the 1990s. It describes how networks are configured, what your options are in the multivendor environment, and how you can get the most efficient and effective network solutions with limited communications budgets.

Better understand the application of telematics to road transport, including the latest ITS/ATT developments in the US, Europe, and Japan with this book. It concentrates on key developments in road transport technology, particularly on advances that will affect the way in which people travel over the next decade.

Here's a broad, integrated view of existing communications technologies available world-wide -- including the Internet and Web, digital mobile telephony, ISDN, SMDS, frame relay, and ATM -- from a practical business perspective. Covering both private and public networks, the book offers a basic explanation of a wide range of technologies and describes their underlying principles and features, as well as the factors that differentiate them. The guide also showcases typical applications, exposes inherent limitations, explains pricing and methods of comparison, and discusses security pitfalls...