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Summary: Your total guide to state-of-the-art Ethernet Networks
Review: Like its predecessors, "Ethernet Networks, Third Edition" fills you in on everything you need to know to plan, implement, manage, and upgrade Ethernet networks. Packed with practical pointers and step-by-step guidance to make network installations and upgrades easier, it is the only comprehensive, single-source guide for organizations running 10BAse-T, 100Base-T, and 1000Base-T Ethernet components. Fully revised and updated with 50% new material, Ethernet Networks, Third Edition:
· Covers everything a LAN team needs to know to plan, design, implement, and maintain a state-of-the-art Ethernet network
· Addresses all important technical and financial issues involved in upgrading
· Features new sections on Internet connectivity, security, Gigabit Ethernets, vLANS, and performance tuning for maximum bandwidth
· Provides detailed guidance on how to design and manage Fast Ethernet or Gigabit Ethernet implementations
· Reviews the new generation of high-speed Ethernet products from Compaq, Bay, Adaptec, and others
· Schools you in proven techniques for estimating network performance before it's built "Ethernet Networks, Third Edition" is an indispensable working resource for network planners, managers, and administrators, systems engineers, that work with Ethernet networks. GILBERT HELD is Chief of Data Communications for a 4,000-station network for an agency of the federal government. He is also the author of more than 15 professional networking books, including "LAN Switches", "Virtual LANs", "The Complete Modem Reference, Second Edition", and "Internetworking LANs and WANs."
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Summary: Very complete except for Gigabit Ethernet
Review: I bought this book because I needed to learn some real details of constructing Ethernet networks, such as distance and hop limitations in mixed 10 and 100 BaseT installations. In this I was disappointed, as I found this portion of the book confusing, unclear and even self-contradictory in places. I was able to figure out what I needed to know, but that took a lot of rereading and extrapolation. The text has the feel of a book written by committee, with the same information repeated in various places with different degrees of clarity and from different points of view. The index is so limited as to be useless. On the other hand, the book contains an extensive introduction to IP and TCP (including their frame structures) and routing, nearly as extensive as the pure Ethernet sections. This was unexpected from the title, but I found it to be a technically strong starting point to making the jump from the details of Ethernet to what may be its major use, the transport of TCP/IP to and from the workstation. The extensive discussions on token ring networks and IBM's SNA were also unexpected, although not relevant to my personal needs. The book succeeds quite well in presenting an integration of the activities of network communication looking from the workstation out to the network. It's driven me to other sources for more detailed information in these areas. All in all, I found this to be a significant book in my studies. The next edition, in my opinion, would benefit greatly from a more descriptive title and the attention of a professional editor.
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Summary: Surprising strengths, surprising weaknesses
Review: I bought this book because I needed to learn some real details of constructing Ethernet networks, such as distance and hop limitations in mixed 10 and 100 BaseT installations. In this I was disappointed, as I found this portion of the book confusing, unclear and even self-contradictory in places. I was able to figure out what I needed to know, but that took a lot of rereading and extrapolation. The text has the feel of a book written by committee, with the same information repeated in various places with different degrees of clarity and from different points of view. The index is so limited as to be useless. On the other hand, the book contains an extensive introduction to IP and TCP (including their frame structures) and routing, nearly as extensive as the pure Ethernet sections. This was unexpected from the title, but I found it to be a technically strong starting point to making the jump from the details of Ethernet to what may be its major use, the transport of TCP/IP to and from the workstation. The extensive discussions on token ring networks and IBM's SNA were also unexpected, although not relevant to my personal needs. The book succeeds quite well in presenting an integration of the activities of network communication looking from the workstation out to the network. It's driven me to other sources for more detailed information in these areas. All in all, I found this to be a significant book in my studies. The next edition, in my opinion, would benefit greatly from a more descriptive title and the attention of a professional editor.
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Summary: Buy the second edition, its up to date!
Review: If you need a comprehensive book on Ethernet this is the
one, especially the recently updated second edition. Thus, this author recommeds you skip the first edition and purchase the second edition.
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Summary: Pretty good
Review: Solid, straight-forward. Perhaps too much coverage of 10base when most new ethernet books should concentrate on Fast or Gigabit (although coverage of those topics was adequate).
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Summary: Very complete except for Gigabit Ethernet
Review: This book is really complete. It has almost anything you need to know about Ethernet Networks. It is also written in a clear and understandable form. Buy it.
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Summary: lots of info; many errors
Review: You'd expect a book on its 3rd edition to be fairly free of errors; not this one. After reading about "attenuation budge" in several places ("attenuation budget"), "190 dB" where it should say "19 dB", I lost trust in the information I did not know much about. Beware.
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Summary: lots of info; many errors
Review: You'd expect a book on its 3rd edition to be fairly free of errors; not this one. After reading about "attenuation budge" in several places ("attenuation budget"), "190 dB" where it should say "19 dB", I lost trust in the information I did not know much about. Beware.
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Summary: lots of info; many errors
Review: You'd expect a book on its 3rd edition to be fairly free of errors; not this one. After reading about "attenuation budge" in several places ("attenuation budget"), "190 dB" where it should say "19 dB", I lost trust in the information I did not know much about. Beware.
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