Data Networks, IP and the Internet

Martin P. Clark is a freelance consultant in telecommunications, IT, business management and strategy. A veteran of the public telecommunications services industry, Martin planned international telephone networks for British Telecom International in the early 1980s – when it was still part of the UK Post Office. Having experienced the privatisation of British Telecom and market deregulation in the UK, Martin moved to Germany in the early 1990s, where he wrote the business plan and project managed the first fixed network competitor to Deutsche Telekom. The company became Vodafone Germany. Since the late 1990s, Martin has been involved in a number of successful technology start-ups, as well as a NASDAQ IPO, and amassed a huge breadth of technological experience, covering data networking, broadband, radio and mobile networks. Martin works as an independent consultant in telecommunications, IT and business strategy.

• Preface. Acknowledgements.Foreword.The Internet, Email, Ebusiness  and the Worldwide Web (www).Fundamentals of Data Communication and Packet Switching.Basic Data Networks and Protocols.Local Area Networks (LANs).WANs, Routers and the Internet Protocol (IP).Routing Tables and Protocols.Transport Services and Protocols.IP Networks in Practice: Components, Backbone and Access.Managing the Network.Data Networking and Internet Applications.The Worldwide Web (www).Electronic Mail (email).Data Network Security.Quality of Service (QOS), Network Performance and Optimisation.Challenges Ahead for IP.Appendix 1. Protocol Addresses, Port Numbers, Service Access Point Identifiers (SAPIs) and Common Presentation Format.Appendix 2. Internet Top-Level Domains (TLDs) and Generic Domains.Appendix 3. Internet Country Code Top-Level Domains (ccTLDs—ISO 3166-1).Appendix 4. Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Request for Comment (RFC) Listing.Appendix 5. IEEE 802 Standards for LANs and MANs.Appendix 6. IEEE 802.11: Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs).Appendix 7. Interfaces, Cables, Connectors and Pin-outs.Appendix 8. X.25 Packet Switching (ITU-T Recommendation X.25).Appendix 9. Frame Relay.Appendix 10. Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM).Glossary of Selected Terms.Abbreviations and Standards Quick-Reference.Bibliography.Index.

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