LAN, ATM, and LAN Emulation Technologies

When multiplied by large numbers of end users, the bandwidth-hungry demands of desktop video, multimedia, imaging, workgroups, and graphics-intensive interfaces add up to a huge headache for today's network planners. Should you deploy full-duplex Ethernet or switched token ring? FDDI II, ATM-based LANs, LAN emulation (LANE), or multi-protocol over ATM (MPOA)? Here at last is an authoritative guide to the bewildering array of technology choices facing today's beleaguered network planners.

When multiplied by large numbers of end users, the bandwidth-hungry demands of desktop video, multimedia, imaging, workgroups, and graphics-intensive interfaces add up to a huge headache for today's network planners.