Enhancing LAN Performance
Enhancing LAN Performance
ISBN: 0849319420
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 111
Pages: 111
Authors: Gilbert Held
- Table of Contents
- BackCover
- Enhancing LAN Performance, Fourth Edition
- Preface
- Chapter 1: LAN Performance Issues
- 1.2 Ethernet, Token Ring and ATM Frame and Cell Operations
- 1.3 Estimating Network Traffic
- 1.4 Understanding and Applying Waiting Line Analysis
- 1.5 Sizing Communications Equipment and Line Facilities
- 1.6 Determining Availability Levels
- 1.7 Ethernet Network Performance
- 1.8 Token Ring Network Performance
- 1.9 ATM network performance
- 1.10 Working with Images
- 1.11 Using Intelligent Switches
- 1.12 Monitoring Tools
- 1.13 Transmission Optimization
- Chapter 2: Ethernet, Token Ring, and ATM Frame and Cell Operations
- 2.2 Token Ring Frame Formats
- 2.3 Frame Overhead
- 2.4 ATM and the ATM Cell
- 2.5 The ATM Adaptation Layer
- 2.6 The ATM Layer
- 2.7 The Physical Layer
- 2.8 Network Interfaces
- 2.9 The ATM Cell Header
- 2.10 ATM Connections and Cell Switching
- 2.11 Types of Switches
- 2.12 Using Connection Identifiers
- 2.13 Cell Overhead
- Chapter 3: Estimating Network Traffic
- 3.2 Network Modification
- 3.3 Automating Worksheet Computations
- Chapter 4: Understanding and Applying Waiting Line Analysis
- 4.1 Waiting Line Analysis
- 4.2 Determining an Optimum Line Operating Rate
- 4.3 Examining Single and Multiple Communications Circuits
- 4.4 Buffer Memory Considerations
- Chapter 5: Sizing Communications Equipment and Line Facilities
- 5.1 Sizing Methods
- 5.2 Telephone Terminology Relationships
- 5.3 Traffic Measurements
- 5.4 The Erlang Traffic Formula
- 5.5 The Poisson Formula
- 5.6 Applying the Equipment Sizing Process
- Chapter 6: Using the Availability Level as a Decision Criterion
- 6.1 Availability
- 6.2 Automating Availability Computations
- Chapter 7: Estimating Ethernet Network Performance
- 7.1 CSMACD Network Performance
- 7.2 Using Bridges to Adjust the Network
- Chapter 8: Estimating Token Ring Network Performance
- 8.1 Token Ring Traffic Modeling
- 8.2 Bridge and Router Performance Requirements
- Chapter 9: ATM Performance
- 9.2 LAN Emulation
- Chapter 10: Working with Images
- 10.1 Image Basics
- 10.2 Examining Image Formats
- 10.3 Hardware Considerations
- 10.4 Web Server Considerations
- Chapter 11: Using Intelligent Switches
- 11.1 Conventional Hub Bottlenecks
- 11.2 Switching Operations
- 11.3 Layer 2 LAN Switch
- Chapter 12: LAN Monitoring Tools
- 12.2 EtherVision
- Chapter 13: Transmission Optimization Techniques
- 13.1 Filtering
- 13.2 Precedence and Express Queuing
- 13.3 Data Compression
- 13.4 Ethernet Frame Truncation
- 13.5 Switched Network Use for Overcoming Congestion
- 13.6 Network Interface Card
- 13.7 Change Network Routing and Advertising Protocols
- Appendix A: Review Problems
- Chapter 3: Estimating Network Traffic
- Chapter 4: Understanding and Applying Waiting Line Analysis
- Chapter 5: Sizing Communications Equipment and Line Facilities
- Chapter 6: Using the Availability Level as a Decision Criterion
- Chapter 7: Estimating Ethernet Network Performance
- Chapter 8: Estimating Token Ring Network Performance
- Chapter 9: ATM Performance
- Chapter 10: Working with Images
- Chapter 11: Using Intelligent Switches
- Index
- Index_B
- Index_C
- Index_D
- Index_E
- Index_F
- Index_G-H
- Index_I
- Index_J
- Index_K
- Index_L
- Index_M
- Index_N
- Index_O
- Index_P
- Index_Q
- Index_R
- Index_S
- Index_T
- Index_U
- Index_V
- Index_W-Z
- Index_Numbers
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
Enhancing LAN Performance
ISBN: 0849319420
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 111
Pages: 111
Authors: Gilbert Held