Wide-Area Data Network Performance Engineering

As customers migrate en masse from private lines to frame relay/ATM technologies, the need for effective multi-protocol wide-area networks increases dramatically. With this new book, network designers and engineers get the help they need to ensure that hardware, software, and data transport devices deliver the expected level of performance in this challenging environment.

"...a practical guide for designing a router network for a variety of traffic, including Internet & intranet, over frame relay devices...covers TCP/IP, SNA, & Novell protocols as well as network management & maintenance."

As customers migrate en masse from private lines to frame relay/ATM technologies, the need for effective multi-protocol wide-area networks increases dramatically. With this new book, network designers and engineers get the help they need to ensure that hardware, software, and data transport devices deliver the expected level of performance in this challenging environment.

Using this practical guide, you acquire the skills you need to design a router network carrying a variety of traffic, including Internet and intranet, over frame relay devices. You gain a comprehensive understanding of routers, protocols including TCP/IP, SNA, and Novell, protocol behavior over a WAN, applications, performance engineering, network management and maintenance, and more.

For WAN analysts and managers, this is an indispensable resource to keep on-hand while operating, maintaining, upgrading, or migrating existing networks. It helps you make difficult decisions involving hardware, software, frame relay and private lines, ATM, and application benchmarking to test new applications on the WAN. Sales and marketing professionals dealing with WAN technology will also find this an important reference for understanding the potential of WAN and related multiprotocol applications.

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Discusses three aspects of performance engineering in wide-area data network engineering: protocol and application details, deterministic models of packet flows, and queuing theory. Treatment is technical in nature, and effort has been taken to explain technical terms. Complex mathematics is relegated to appendices. For those responsible for designing, maintaining, and troubleshooting performance problems in data networks, as well as those responsible for capacity planning, performance assurance, and application testing. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Robert Cole is a Technical Manager with AT&T Laboratories and received his BSc. in Professional Physics from the University of Miami and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Chemical Physics from Iowa State University. Ravi Ramaswamy is a District Manager with AT&T Managed Network Solutions. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Probability from the University of Rochester in New York.