TCP/IP Over ATM: A No-Nonsense Internetworking Guide

By Berry Kercheval

Provides practical guidance for planning and managing ATM backbone networks for TCP/IP-based WANs and the Internet. After an overview of TCP/IP and ATM fundamentals, material compares pros and cons of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0137685998
• ISBN13: 9780137685998
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR
• Length: 410 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.2" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Excellent introductory book on ATM: I loved it!

This was my first book on ATM (after having browsed through uninteresting overly complex literature on ATM). Well this book explains the ATM basics, the concepts, LAN Emulation, Classical IP, management, the relationship with IP, etc in a highly readable manner. The content is very clear. The book also contains references to other material for the reader who wants to go deeper (like the technical specs of the ATM Forum). After reading it, I was armed with a solid foundation to be able to understand more and go on my own. There is also a good chapter on TCP performance over ATM. The book is aimed at people who are familiar with networking but don't know much about ATM, for people who want to know how it works in some detail, but not so much detail that the concepts would be buried under and not understood. So the reader won't get ALL the information, but will get a pretty good idea of how it works and where to go to learn more. For me, this book was a joy to read!

Practical useful information

Of the nine or ten books on ATM I have read, this is the one I reach for first when I have a question about the various IP over ATM solutions. Unlike the ATM standards or most of the books derived from them, this book was obviously written by someone who has actually set up ATM equipment. You can find the answer to the things you really need to know about IP over ATM faster in this book than any other.