This text explains how products and services from a wide variety of suppliers can be integrated to produce a distributed computing system. It shows how organizations can build sophisticated data communication networks that are integrated with widespread data processing resources. The text addresses a balanced field of hardware (transmission, switching, computing equipment) and software (architecture, protocols, operating systems and middleware), and shows why software is the vital ingredient to produce interoperability in a world of incompatible systems and services.
- ISBN10 0890066914
- ISBN13 9780890066911
- Publish Date 31 March 1994
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 2 September 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Artech House Publishers
- Edition Unabridged edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English