Heterogeneous Internetworking : Networking Technically Diverse Operating Systems

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Conquer the Tower of Babel!
These days, no computer is an island. This explosion in connectivity has created chaos as well as opportunity, given the abundance of international standards, vendor innovations, industry partnerships, and technological advances.
The rise of LANs, WANs, the Internet, and client-server architectures means that from your desktop, you may be interfacing with applications based on DOS, UNIX, Macintosh, or other operating systems. These programs may be accessed via OSI, TCP/IP, SNA, AppleTalk, DECnet, NetBios, and a number of other protocols.
Heterogeneous Internetworking gives you everything you need to know to sort out the various standards and systems and make them work for you.
Main subject areas include:

*Internetworking diverse operating systems.

*System administration and management of interconnected networks.

*Troubleshooting internetworks and performance tuning .

Beginning with an overview of technological trends, this book covers the history of networking, current standards, and future projections. The basic connectivity issues, for both hardware and software, are reviewed, along with the basics of internetworking. After this theoretical background, Heterogeneous Internetworking gets down to specifics, including:

*Standards and protocols, both de facto and de jure.

*Internetworking tools and applications, including file transfer, E-mail, and databases.

*Connectivity among UNIX, DOS, and Macintosh systems.

*Integrating legacy networks, especially IBM and DEC systems.

*Monitoring, testing, and troubleshooting diverse networks.

Every chapter includes a summary and review exercises, making Heterogeneous Internetworking ideal for classroom use or self-tutoring, as well as general reference. The organization allows you to turn directly to the section you need, or work through the materials in sequence. This book is intended for computer professionals such as network administrators, technical support staff, systems analysts, application developers, and their managers.

About the Author
HARRY S. SINGH is an educator and consultant with three decades of experience in Information Sciences. Currently the manager of education programs for Hitachi Data Systems, Harry worked over 11 years for IBM, focusing on systems architecture, standards, and open systems. A former professor of computer science at the University of Texas, he holds eight patents and is the author of numerous technical papers and another Prentice Hall PTR book, UNIX for MVS Programmers.

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