Book Description
This book is designed to serve as a trusted reference guide on how to integrate non-IBM networking technologies in IBM network environments. It explains how to reeengineer traditional IBM networks operating under SNA and APPN protocols into muliprotocol broadband networks using frame relay, ATM, and other advanced techniques. Describes how to evaluate design alternatives and how to build cost-effective and efficient networks. Several chapters describe new broadband architectures being developed by IBM and compare these to non-IBM solutions. Migration strategies are described that show how to combine IBM and non-IBM technologies to build advanced broadband networks.
Synopsis
This text is designed to serve as a reference on how to integrate non-IBM networking technologies in IBM network environments. In particular, it explains how to reengineer traditional IBM networks operating under SNA and APPN protocols into multiprotocol broadband networks using frame relay, ATM, and other advanced techniques. The author begins with an overview of traditional IBM networks in relation to a range of new communications technologies. The book goes on to describe how to evaluate design alternatives and how to build cost-effective and efficient networks. Several chapters describe broadband architectures being developed by IBM and compares these to non-IBM solutions. Migration strategies are described that show how to combine IBM and non-IBM technologies to build advance broadband networks.
