Overview
As computer networks grow, network managers and system administrators are challenged to improve their network's performance. This book offers multi-vendor, multi-protocol, heterogeneous tools for evaluating and improving network performance. Covers the fundamentals of network performance analysis; the parameters found in media such as Ethernet, Token Ring and FDDI; interconnect devices such as hubs, bridges, routers, and Ethernet switches; wide area technologies such as T-!, Frame Relay, and X.25; server architecture; and the application of practical tools such as LOTUS 123, MathCAD, and PlanNet to real network performance problems. For network administrators, network designers, network performance analysts, and network consultants.
Synopsis
As computer networks grow, network managers and system administrators are challenged to improve their network's performance. This book offers multi-vendor, multi-protocol, heterogeneous tools for evaluating and improving network performance.
Covers the fundamentals of network performance analysis; the parameters found in media such as Ethernet, Token Ring and FDDI; interconnect devices such as hubs, bridges, routers, and Ethernet switches; wide area technologies such as T-!, Frame Relay, and X.25; server architecture; and the application of practical tools such as LOTUS 123, MathCAD, and PlanNet to real network performance problems.
For network administrators, network designers, network performance analysts, and network consultants.
Booknews
A guide written for computer network managers and designers providing the fundamentals of network performance analysis and explaining Ethernet, Token Ring, FDDI, and server architecture. Bloomer (Network Performance Specialist, Hewlett-Packard) guides the reader through queuing theory, worst-case analysis, and simulation toward the more practical applications of spreadsheets, math scratchpads, and event simulators. An accompanying disk in MS-DOS format contains examples to help the user practice and apply techniques illustrated in the text. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)