As the Internet becomes increasingly dominant, communications engineers must transition from traditional circuit-switched networks to IP-based packet-switched networks. In this book, globally respected telecommunications author Uyless Black presents all the packet-switched and digital technologies they need to understand. Black covers the Internet's architecture and key protocols; digital voice and video; and digitalization technologies such as Voice-over-IP and MPEG-2. He introduces new Layer 3 Switching technologies, covering all approaches, tag switching, label switching, and IP switching. He compares leading digital cellular technologies' infrastructure requirements, architectures, security, roaming, frequencies, capacity and interfaces. The book also covers increasingly important technologies such as IP Multicasting, IPv6, multi-service protocols (RSVP, RTP, RTCP), mobile IP, CIDR and PPP.
- ISBN10 0137595158
- ISBN13 9780137595150
- Publish Date 26 October 1998
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 June 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Prentice Hall
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 380
- Language English