ATM and MPLS Theory and Application : Foundations of Multi-Service Networking

by McDysan, David E.; Paw, Dave

• ISBN13: 9780072222562
• ISBN10: 0072222565
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill

Summary

Solve all your networking problems and improve overall performance using this detailed guide to ATM and IP technologies. You’ll get full coverage of circuits, multiplexing, switching, frame relay, bridging, routing, signaling, and much more. This practical guide also covers ATM hardware, software, and high-layer protocols.

Author Biography

Dr. David E. McDysan has been on the board of the ATM Forum, and has led technical committees on network management and traffic management. He is acknowledged as an industry expert in ATM traffic management, giving tutorials by invitation at several conferences a year. He speaks at conferences or seminars on ATM, MPLS and IP. Dr. McDysan co-authored ATM- Theory and Application.

Dave Paw is an architectural engineering role for the development and specification of WorldCom's Next Generation Networks. He worked on the signaling and routing protocols for WorldCom's ATM and Frame Relay networks, where he was responsible for developing WorldCom's PNNI requirements specification. He is currently responsible for documenting the WorldCom MPLS requirements specification and the application of MPLS and PNNI protocols to the Optical transport network. He is an active in the ATM Forum (Vice-Chair of the control signaling working group). Dave graduated from Texas Tech, Lubbock TX with a degree in Electrical Engineering.

Table of Contents

Ch. 1: Business Drivers for ATM

Ch. 2: Technology Enablers for ATM

Ch. 3: Computer and Information Networking Directions

Ch. 4: Networks, Circuits, Multiplexing, and Switching

Ch. 5: Basic Protocol Concepts

Ch. 6: Time Division Multiplexing and the Narrowband Integrated Services Digital Network (N-ISDN) 123

Ch. 7: Connection-Oriented Protocols - X.25 and Frame Relay

Ch. 8: Connectionless Protocols - IP and SMDS

Ch. 9: LANS, Bridging, and Routing

Ch. 10: ATM and B-ISDN Standards and Specifications

Ch. 11: Introduction to ATM

Ch. 12: Physical and ATM Layers

Ch. 13: ATM Adaptation Layers

Ch. 14: Higher-Layer User, Management, and Control Planes

Ch. 15: Signaling and Routing in the Control Plane

Ch. 16: ATM Hardware and Software

Ch. 17: ATM Interworking with Voice and Video

Ch. 18: ATM Interworking with Frame Relay, SMDS, DXI and FUNI

Ch. 19: ATM in the Local Area Network

Ch. 20: ATM and Internetworking

Ch. 21: The Traffic Contract

Ch. 22: ATM Traffic Control and Available Bit Rate (ABR)

Ch. 23: Congestion Indication and Control

Ch. 24: Basic Communications Engineering

Ch. 25: Traffic Engineering

Ch. 26: Design Considerations

Ch. 27: Operational Philosophy and Network Management Architectures

Ch. 28: Network Management Protocols and Management Information Bases (MIBs)

Ch. 29: ATM Layer Management and Performance Measurement

Ch. 30: Technologies Competing with ATM in the WAN

Ch. 31: Technologies Competing with ATM in the LAN

Ch. 32: Future Directions involving ATM