Enterprise Networking: Multilayer Switching and Applications

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 282 pages
• Published by: IGI Global December 24, 2001
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1930708173
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1930708174
• Book Dimensions: 10.2 x 6.9 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 1.5 pounds

Product Description
Primarily targeted toward the network or MIS manager who wants to stay abreast of the latest networking technology, Enterprise Networking: Multilayer Switching and Applications offers up to date information relevant for the design of modern corporate networks and for the evaluation of new networking equipment. The book describes the architectures and standards of switching across the various protocol layers and will also address issues such as multicast quality of service, high-availability and network policies that are requirements of modern switched networks. --This text refers to the Digital edition.

About The Author
Vasilis Theoharakis is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the Athens Laboratory of Business Administration (ALBA). His research interests are in the areas of New Product Development, Product Management and Marketing of Innovative Products. Dr. Theoharakis has spent several years in Silicon Valley at senior level marketing positions. He was more recently with 3Com Corporation directing marketing and business development functions of the enterprise business unit. Dr. Theoharakis started his career at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center where he was conducting research in the area of high-speed networks. He holds a B.Eng.(honors) in Electrical Engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic University, an M.B.A. (with distinction) from New York University and a Ph.D. from the University of Warwick.

Dimitrios N. Serpanos is an Associate Professor at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Patras in Greece. Prof. Serpanos holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Princeton University, since 1988 and 1990, respectively. He also holds a Diploma in Computer Engineering and Information Sciences from the University of Patras since 1985. Before becoming a faculty member, Prof. Serpanos was a Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center between 1990 and 1996. Between 1996 and 2000, he was Assistant and Associate Professor of the Dept. of Computer Science of the University of Crete in Greece. His research work is in the areas of computer architecture, high-speed network system architecture, multimedia systems and security systems. Professor Serpanos is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of the ACM, the New York Academy of Sciences and the Technical Chamber of Greece.

Reader Reviews
I found this book to be quite useful in introducing some emerging areas like Web Switching and Caching as well as covering familiar areas like the OSI reference model in the context of switching. The chapter on VLANs helps explain an area which has seen a lot of interest over the past few years. "IP Switching and MPLS" is a comprehensive chapter with a lot of detail. I felt that the two VoIP chapters could have been combined into one. I would have appreciated some more details in the chapter on emering enterprise storage systems, especially regarding trends like Storage over IP. The chapter on security (Chapter 12) would have been more lucid with the addition of figures. Overall, it is a valuable addition to a network engineer's library due to the number of issues covered.