Nathan Muller

Empowered by today's high-performance computers interconnected over LANs and WANs, companies are faced with the daunting task of bringing workability to the diversity and complexity of today's data communications landscape. This comprehensive resource addresses key network management challenges, showing how to: tie together incompatible LANs; meld legacy systems and LANs; extend the reach of LANs with wireless links; protect information assets from various disaster scenarios; and consolidate multi-protocol traffic over a single WAN backbone in a way that guarantees appropriate service levels.

Networking guru, Nathan Muller takes a long, hard look at WiFi in the enterprise in this complete reference to equipment, configuration, and features for business environments. Already, there are over 300 (and climbing) certified products in this red-hot market. What's right for your organization? How do you build the network to interoperate with technology you're already deployed? What does the introduction of WiFi mean for your security strategy and applications? This book is fast-paced, easy-to-read presentation, and free of jargon. It talks about 44 per cent of businesses planning to deploy in the next 24 months, and gives down-to-earth implementation advice.

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Network Essentials guides consist of 100 3-5 page articles, heavily illustrated, covering the basic concepts, technologies, standards and protocols – everything you need to master the fieldWireless A to Z covers the key concepts and technologies of wireless and mobile communications. From traditional topics like CDMA and signal hand-offs to cutting edge mobile applications like WiFi and Bluetooth, this is a precise – and concise – quick look up reference to the industry

Bluetooth is a wireless networking standard that allows seamless communication of voice, email and such like. This guide to Bluetooth helps to figure out if it's right for your products and services. It details the strengths and weaknesses of Bluetooth and has coverage of applications and products.

Providing insight into the operation and application of various Internet technologies, this text explains the technical terms in context and details the appropriate standards. It features over 200 alphabetically arranged topics, short articles, cross-references and illustrations.

The first book devoted exclusively to LAN interconnection, this easy-to-read volume addresses the gamut of LAN interconnection issues through a methodical exposition of LAN - MAN - WAN networking. This single-source reference discusses LANs and WANs in terms of their evolution, benefits, applications, management, carrier development, vendor implementations and progress towards standardization. By the authors of "LANs to WANs: network management in the 1990s.