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Summary: The most current, complete, and "real world" guide on ATM
Review: ATM THEORY AND APPLICATIONS by David McDysan and Darren L Spohn is the ultimate "in print" database of ATM technology, services, and applications. Emphasizing practice over theory in an engaging, fun-to-read style, the authors present high-level summaries followed up with detailed treatment of all key areas of ATM technology. It is the only book that provides in-depth treatment of such "hot" new protocols as: · IP and Tag Switching
· Private Network Network Interface (PNNI)
· LAN Emulation (LANE)
· Understandable View of ATM Signaling
· MultiProtocol Over ATM (MPOA)
· Available Bit Rate (ABR) flow control
· Internet ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP)
In addition, ATM THEORY AND APPLICATIONS explores the remarkable range of ATM applications, objectively compares ATM with competing technologies, and even offers some provocative predictions about how ATM technology might evolve.
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Summary: Superb, Comprehensive ATM book
Review: cover everything new in ATM by 1999 such as UNI4.0 and so on.The examples are concise and helpful to understand the complicated concept. An excellent job! However, if you are a new comer to ATM, you should read some other basic books first.
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Summary: excellent book on ATM
Review: cover everything new in ATM by 1999 such as UNI4.0 and so on.The examples are concise and helpful to understand the complicated concept. An excellent job! However, if you are a new comer to ATM, you should read some other basic books first.
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Summary: Tedious, pompous...but good on certain select topics
Review: I turned to this book to understand how the various ATM functions work. I had quite a bit of both practical and conceptual networking background prior to opening this book. As such, I've read quite a number of good and bad technical books on various networking topics. If you'd rather not read the rest of this review here's the gist. Don't buy this book. Instead, buy Oliver C. Ibe's 'Essentials of ATM Networks and Services'. After you've mastered that, use Mark Miller's 'Analyzing Broadband Networks' to see how ATM Layer PDUs are put together and exchanged in various situations like call setup/teardown etc. Here's the rest of the review. Within minutes of reading, I got that old My-Head-Is-Swimming feeling. Not because I couldn't understand what the authors were saying, but more so because I couldn't figure out why on earth I was reading stuff that was irrelevant. Here are a few cases in point: Every ATM book I've thumbed through religiously talks about the B-ISDN model. And when it starts explaining how something in ATM acutally works (say SSCOP), there is no reference to any of the terms that were introduced and defined in talking about the B-ISDN model. Why talk about the model at all then? This book is no exception. The vast number of initial pages (285 in fact!) dedicated to talking about things like X.25, FR, multiplexing schemes etc. are useless. If you don't know this stuff, you have no business reading a book dedicated to ATM. And if you're just learning this stuff, there's no way you're going to really understand ATM. And of course, these authors couldn't resist the whole 'business drivers for ATM' nonsense. The only redeeeming part about the book was Chapter 25 on Traffic Engineering. Just goes to show what technical authors can do when they're talking about stuff they know really really well. This is also the chapter where the authors use language relatively more precisely and concisely - a rare blessing in this overall tedious and pompous book. Someone ask these guys to check out (...)!
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Summary: don't even bother with this one
Review: I work with ATM networks frequently. Sometimes I'm confronted with desperate emergency situations in which a good ATM reference book is critical. I found this book to be poorly organized and extremely tedious. If you're seriously in to ATM and need something that will save you in a pinch, look elsewhere.
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Summary: What a great book!
Review: If you work with ATM or need to design networks for ATM, you need to have this book on your shelf. It is the argument-settler and really the best reference on ATM available (that can be understood). Matter of fact, I would go as far to say that this is the only ATM book worth buying.
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Summary: What a great book!
Review: If you work with ATM or need to design networks for ATM, you need to have this book on your shelf. It is the argument-settler and really the best reference on ATM available (that can be understood). Matter of fact, I would go as far to say that this is the only ATM book worth buying.
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Summary: Excellent ATM Reference Book for Data-Comm Engineer.
Review: In my working field, I have to handle ATM network frequently. I run into cutomer's picky questions from time to time, some of them are pretty hard to answer. All I can do, just refer to this great book for these questions. For example, my customer asked me to demo F4/F5 functions in our solution, then, I checked this book and offered great test plans for them. If you are looking for one book that shows you how to configure ATM switch, please choose other one.
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Summary: Excellent coverage of ATM and upper layers
Review: The introduction to ATM is quite long but worth reading. ATM basic concepts are well illustrated. The text is dense (even for a 800 page book). The higher level layers are well documented. This book explains is great details but does not get to the protocols. For this you need technical specs. I recommend it to designers and planners.
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Summary: Excellent ATM perception provided
Review: This book is "The Book" to grab an excellent perspective of ATM Technology from Designers / Engineers point of view. Someone having general knowledge of ATM can reach almost an intermediate-expert level after completing this book. It provides a smooth flow in reading and understanding of the subject. The frequently defined acronyms, easily-reachable cross-references and detail comparison of products of ATM vendors certainly add value to the book. A little off-date but it certainly is a "must read".
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