Enterprise Networking for Information Systems Professionals

by Norman Witkin

ISBN: 0-442-01875-4
PRICE: $34.95
350pp, Softcover

May 4, 1995 - New York, NY-- Modern enterprise networks are information
access and delivery systems that connect organizations with customers,
vendors, and business partners. Through the design and implementation of
new, superior networks, IS professionals have an opportunity to provide
their organizations with a competitive advantage.

ENTERPRISING NETWORKING FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS PROFESSIONALS provides all
the material IS professionals need in order to chart the right strategic
course, using the optimum data communications capabilities within the
industry, for their organization's enterprise network. You will learn how
to choose among the almost unlimited variety of protocols, standards, and
technologies available to build a network that is economically sound and
amenable to future growth.

This book is both a tutorial and compendium of current and potential data
communications capabilities. The scope of the topics range from a
discussion of IS objectives feasible with current and past communications,
to the architecture of the ISO OSI reference model. It also included
information on the capabilities of media, topologies, signaling, and
access characteristics which constitute key elements of the
enterprise-wide local, metropolitan, and wide area network. The author
explains these functions by exploring the technologies at the heart of
network elements, product capabilities, and services.

ENTERPRISE NETWORKING FOR INFORMATION SYSTEMS PROFESSIONALS includes:

* Details on the significance of network choices - the important options
for meeting your organization's needs

* Coverage and analysis of the key data communications technologies and
standards in today's services and products

* Comparison of and details on the internetworking functions of routers and
bridges used in services and products

* Explanation of the roles of analog and digital facilities and services
including: modems, ATM, SONET, Frame Relay, ISDN, Tl, and T3

* Description of media characteristics, topologies, access methods, and
signaling technologies

* Study of the mutual dependence of computers with communications such as
IBM's SNA, APPN, Netbios, and APPC LU6.2

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Norman Witkin is a lecturer and consultant in the field of data
communications and computer networks. He has worked in senior management
of companies such as Misubishi Electronics, Control Data, Computer
Automation, Xerox, and Hughes Aircraft. Mr. Witkin was also a key
developer of the SyFA distributed data processing systems, used in early
networks by Fireman's Fund Insurance, Continental Insurance, Houghton
Mifflin, Certified Grocers, and other major corporations. He holds a B.S.
in Mathematics from the University of South Africa and an M.S. in Business
Administration from California State University

Van Nostrand Reinhold
115 Fifth Ave
New York, NY 10003

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