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What makes Internet Protocol Security Architecture (IPSec) virtual private networks (VPNs) secure? A Guide to Virtual Private Networks does a great job of explaining the processes that--in theory, anyway--do. The book covers the data-handling and security aspects of these VPNs with an eye toward implementing one. You'll find a comprehensive portrait of the technologies that define VPNs governed by the IPSec specification. This book clearly explains how the Internet Security Association and Key Management Protocol (ISAKMP) and the Oakley key-exchange protocol work. It also provides details on how Internet Key Exchange (IKE) works under ISAKMP/Oakley. The workings of all these protocols are explained by dissecting transactions into their ind... Rest of this review on the detail page
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For the beginner, this book does provide an introduction to email (and also Usenet news)--but not much more. There are a wide variety of topics addressed, including the creation of aliases, the use of prepared text in messages, and problems you might encounter using telnet to connect to your home system. The details of how to use those features are largely absent. Or, since more than twenty pages of chapter two are devoted to a reprinting of help screens from a variety of programs, the details are not discussed where it would be most helpful, in the discussion of the functions, themselves. Basically, this tells the reader, "This can be done, if you can figure out how by yourself." The introduction suggests that the book has many tips ... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Telephone companies and internet service providers are pushing hard to "bundle" different services into comprehensive packages for competitive advantage. ATM (asynchronous tansfer mode) provides cost efficient bundling. This book shows telephone and internet service providers how to: deploy ATM to provide multiple services in one package; deploy TCP/IP over ATM; deploy IPv6 over ATM; develop cost efficient ATM strategies.
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All too many works on any currently popular technology parrot banal generalities without providing much in the way of details. ATM is the current darling of the networking types, so there are any number of books which will tell you that ATM is fast, but won't really tell you why. Onvural tells you why. In detail. In mathematical detail, in fact. It is one of the few references which will be really helpful to those designing networks. It is also a good text for EE students working in this area of network communications. Unfortunately, for the non-engineers who have to manage networks and make decisions about ATM, not much after the first two chapters is going to be easy to follow. The author does the math, but little analysis; an... Rest of this review on the detail page
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ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) is a reaction to the need for multiple data use types (data, packet data, voice, video, etc.) on the new, high speed, lower bit error rate transmission media. Related to B-ISDN (Broadband Integrated Services Digital Network) offerings, it is a time division, multiplexed, or "slotted", system with flexible use of "slots". The small frame size (53 bytes/octets) and reduced error control are felt to be effective for a wide variety of bandwidth situations, and to allow faster response and greater network efficiency. This material is primarily of interest to those designing telecommunications networks and infrastructure. The current work is very complete, covering areas of little standardization (such as f... Rest of this review on the detail page
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