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Designing--And Redesigning--Today's Local Area Network

by Art Wittmann

Table of Contents
Introduction Current Common Architectures The Small LAN Medium-Sized Networks and The Collapsed Backbone Big Networks
Diagrams
Appendix
Definitions: Network Components Concepts: Shared-medium Networks Concepts: Switched Networks Concepts: Network Addressing Concepts: Bridging Concepts: Routing Concepts: Switching Today's networks

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