With cheaper bandwidth and greater robustness, optical networking components are looking increasingly tempting--perhaps even mandatory for maintaining your network's competitive edge. Here's how you get there from here, without being overwhelmed by optical science.

Optical technologies' advantages over copper have caught your attention. Now you're one of the many network professionals--enterprise and service provider alike--looking to answer that key question, "What's the impact on my network?" Optical Networking Components provides the help you need as you rethink system changes and update...

In networks, Quality of Service (QoS) is the idea that transmission rates, error rates, and other characteristics can be measured, improved, and, to some extent, guaranteed in advance.

Ethernet Networks, Fourth Edition, provides everything you need to know to plan, implement, manage and upgrade Ethernet networks.
* Improve your skills in employing Ethernet hubs, switches, and routers.
* Learn how to set up and operate a wireless Local Area Network (LAN).
* Discover how to extend a wired Ethernet via wireless LANs.
* Understand cabling standards and the role of NEXT (Near End Crosstalk), FEXT (Far End Crosstalk) and other transmission parameters.
* Profit from Gilbert Held's tips and tricks on enhancing security
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Wireless LANs will enable small teams and communities to communicate via their mobile devices without cables. This new technology will facilitate communication in small businesses/teams such as in hospitals, on construction sites, warehouses, etc.

Held provides a comprehensive guide to the implementation, planning and monitoring of all aspects of wireless LAN security in small offices/small to medium business (SMBs).

Securing Wireless LANs is timely in addressing the security issues of this important new technology and equips its readers with the tools they need to...

This book provides network managers, LAN administrators and small business operators with all they need to know to "interconnect" multiple locations or travelling employees that need to access a single location. The operation and utilization of virtual private networks is discussed both in theory and practicality, covering the technical aspects associated with encryption and digital certificates as well as the manner by which readers can create VPNs using readily available products from Microsoft, Cisco, Checkpoint and possibly other vendors.

The author was among the first to...

Find out about TCP/IP-based network attack methods and threats to Windows NT/2000 computers and the preventive measures you can use to protect your infrastructure. Bulletproofing TCP/IP-based Windows NT/2000 Networks details the use of router access lists, firewalls, virus scanners and encryption. It includes examples of the configuration of hardware and software to prevent or minimize the effect of a wide range of communications-based attacks against TCP/IP networks and Windows NT/2000 hosts connected to such networks.

- Covers how TCP/IP operates and how TCP/IP attacks...

The rapid increase in Internet connections has caused a dramatic rise in the technological and administrative difficulties experienced by LAN and WAN users and managers as they try to meet the demand for intercompatibility between diverse systems. This practical book addresses these challenges by covering the latest technological advancements, including high speed LANs FDDI, Fast Ethernet and ATM, token ring, TCP/IP, and more.

This new edition of the most comprehensive reference to the terms, definitions and abbreviations associated with data and computer communications contains almost 18,000 entries (approximately 50% more than the previous edition). Covering communications definitions, terms and abbreviations, this reference has become known as an indispensable "Communications Bible." New and expanded areas include Internet and Intranet terminology, ATM, LAN, and the latest developments in communications technology. Approximately 1,000 trade names are also included allowing readers to easily identify devices and...

This new edition of the most comprehensive reference to the terms, definitions and abbreviations associated with data and computer communications contains almost 18,000 entries (approximately 50% more than the previous edition). Covering communications definitions, terms and abbreviations, this reference has become known as an indispensable -Communications Bible.- New and expanded areas include Internet and Intranet terminology, ATM, LAN, and the latest developments in communications technology. Approximately 1,000 trade names are also included allowing readers to easily identify devices and...

Our world is rapidly becoming an Internet-based world, with tens of millions of homes, millions of businesses, and within a short period of time, possibly hundreds of millions of mobile professionals accessing the literal mother of all networks. One of the key problems affecting many Internet users, ranging from individual professionals to networking managers and administrators, is a lack of knowledge concerning Internet Protocol (IP) addressing.
A detailed reference guide, The ABCs of IP Addressing provides you with the detailed information about the key challenges of IP addressing and...