Wide-area data network performance engineering Book

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.