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Enhancing LAN Performance
Issues and Answers
Third Edition
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Gilbert Held, 4 Degree Consulting, Macon, Georgia, USA
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0471 98836 7December
1999Hardback366pp
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Enhancing LAN Performance covers a large number of practical methods that can improve the
efficiency of networks. It shows how to estimate network traffic, determine availability and reliability of
different network configurations and determine the number of ports required on access controllers. In addition it
covers the line speed of WAN connections linking routes, how to work with images and techniques used to optimize
Web traffic.
An essential reference for practising LAN administrators, designers, analysts and network managers, this book is
also recommended reading for students of electrical & electronic engineering and communications.
- Includes new sections on Gigabit Ethernets and Intelligent Switching Hubs and LAN estimation models
- Shows how to develop models in order to predict LAN performance
- Advises how to adjust LANs for improved performance and make successful, cost-efficient decisions
- Presents numerous techniques used to enhance the performance of local area networks and how to estimate LAN traffic
Contents:
- LAN Performance Issues
- Ethernet and Token-Ring Frame Operations; Estimating Network Traffic
- Determining Remote Bridge and Router Delays and Buffer Memory Requirements
- Using the Availability Level as a Decision Criteria
- Estimating Ethernet Network Performance
- Estimating Token-Ring Network Performance
- Estimating ATM Performance
- Using Intelligent Switches
- Layer 2 vs Layer 3 Monitoring
- Index
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