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Description: Handbook of Communications Systems Management serves as an information tool for proven advice and methods on managing network services and costs, creating networking solutions, and preparing for advanced communications network technologies.
Features Include:
• Presents the full range of perspectives and explanations on the technical, planning, administrative, personnel, and budget challenges of the communication manager’s job • Provides an effective communications recovery plan Shows how frame relay can provide users with immediate economic benefits and a migration path to high-performance routing and networking • Discusses managing coexisting SNA and LAN internet works, improving traffic flow in ATM network and choosing a remote access strategy • Outlines how to evaluate network access and pricing options, how to develop an effective network cost allocation system, and how to compare high-speed services for LAN interconnection • Includes discussions on hiring IS employees; maximizing voice recognition interfaces for multimedia applications; mobilizing users with wireless communications for voice and data; effectively managing a multivendor systems environment; using IPv6, the new Internet protocol; and establishing a corporate intranet
Contents: Planning for communications systems • Improving communication between end users • Windows NT project planning • Inventing the future: Strategic EUC planning • Framework for internet security planning • Network baselining as a planning tool • Developing corporate intranets • Preparing for cable modems • Network disaster recovery planning • Business management issues • Pricing methods across linked networks • Developing a trusted infrastructure for electronic commerce services • An overview of the telecommunications policy process • Business aspects of multimedia networking • Integrating the web and enterprisewide business system • Cost allocation for communication networks • Networking technology • New modem technologies and trends • Multicast networking • Frame relay testing and training • Working with images in Client/server environments • Voice and video on the LAN • Inverse multiplexing ATM, bit by bit • Hybrid fiber/ Coaxial networks • Choosing asymmetrical digital subscriber lines • Multimedia networking technologies • The basics of computer system and data network security • Windows NT architechture • Interoperability and standards issues • Introduction to 100 base-T: Fast and faster ethernet • A better fast ethernet: 100 VG-AnyLAN • Applications and business issues of Fiber channel • Fiber channel architecture, layers and services • Linking to the World Wide Web • X-400 vs SMTP • Ipv6: The next generation internet protocol • Organizational communications services • Overview of virtual private networks • Using the internet as a virtual private network • Popular e-mail systems • Novell messaging products • An introduction to Microsoft exchange server • The 1996
Telecommunications Act • The internet and internetworking • The internet engineering task force • The legal and regulatory environment of the Internet • The hidden cost of the free TCP/IP • Choosing and equipping an internet server • Supporting a web site • Selecting a web server connection rate • Criminal activity on the internet • An introduction to internet security and firewall policies • Firewalls: An effective solution for internet security • Selecting an internet firewall • A new security model for networks and the internet • An intranet primer • Virtual networking management and planning • Mobile communications systems • Safe mobile computing • Portable network access • Wireless communications for voice and data • Developing a cost-effective strategy for wireless • Cellular digital packet data: An emerging mobile • Security of wireless local area networks • Protecting of mobile computing assets • Mobile user security • Implementation and case studies • Integrating electronic messaging systems • TCP/IP network management: A case study • Integrating voice and LAN infrastructures • Creating network expressways using ethernet • Remote LAN/WAN connections: A case study • Considerations for implementing corporate intranets • Minimizing the effect on digital camera images on networks67-1 • Planning, designing and optimization of enterprise networks67-1 • WAN network integration: A case study • Network operations and mangement • How to work with a consultant • Open systems integration: Issues in design and implementation • Operating standards and practices for LANs • Applets and network security: A management overview • Assessing and eliminating virus threats • Technology conversions on WANs • Enterprise messaging management • Windows NT performance monitoring • Managing networks with the global naming tree • Directions in communications systems • The super highway: Information infrastructure initiatives • Using intelligent agents to manage • Voice recognition interfaces for multimedia applications • Workplace 2000: Top career strategies for the professional • Acronyms used in this book • Index ISBN - 9788130903095
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Pages : 695
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