Emerging Optical Network Technologies: Architectures, Protocols and Performance
Book’s Description:
Optical networks have moved from laboratory settings and theoretical research to real-world deployment and service-oriented explorations. New technologies such as Ethernet PON, traffic grooming, regional and metropolitan network architectures and optical packet switching are being explored, and the landscape is continuously and rapidly evolving. Some of the important issues involving these new technologies [...]
Distributed and Parallel Systems: Cluster and Grid Computing
Book’s Description:
Distributed and Parallel Systems: Cluster and Grid Computing is the proceedings of the fourth Austrian-Hungarian Workshop on Distributed and Parallel Systems organized jointly by Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria and the MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute. The papers in this volume cover a broad range of research topics presented in four [...]
Securing Networks with PIX and ASA SNPA - Student Guide
Book’s Description:
The Cisco ASA 5500 Series Adaptive Security Appliance is a high-performance, multifunction security appliance family delivering converged firewall, IPS, network anti-virus and VPN services. As a key component of the Cisco Self-Defending Network, it provides proactive threat mitigation that stops attacks before they spread through the network, controls network activity and application traffic, [...]
Web Services on Rails
Book’s Description:
This PDF will show you how your small business or enterprise can publish its APIs (application programming interface) to a developer community just like the behemoths of the Internet–Google, Yahoo!, eBay, and Amazon.
These giants already offer their APIs to other programmers and allow for add-on services and mash-ups to develop from them–but until [...]
Mobile Wireless and Sensor Networks
Book’s Description:
This publication represents the best thinking and solutions to a myriad of contemporary issues in wireless networks. Coverage includes wireless LANs, multihop wireless networks, and sensor networks. Readers are provided with insightful guidance in tackling such issues as architecture, protocols, modeling, analysis, and solutions. The book also highlights economic issues, market trends, emerging, [...]
WiMax Operators Manual - Building 802.16 Wireless Networks
Book’s Description:
The book addresses the planning, construction, and day-to-day operation of a standards-based broadband wireless network. It examines the advantages of broadband wireless and how it constitutes an ideal solution. It also explains the unique difficulties, challenges, and limitations of broadband wireless.
This book illustrates how to plan and run networks, and indicates which specialized [...]
Wi-Fi Toys - 15 Cool Wireless Projects for Home Office and Entertainment
Book’s Description:
This ultra-cool volume invites readers to tap into your inner geek and build seventeen ultra-cool wireless devices including a solar powered access point, a wireless picture frame that dynamically changes its own photos, and even a wireless car-to-car audio and video system.
With a few simple tools, some off-the-shelf parts, and this book, readers [...]
Intrusion Prevention Fundamentals
Book’s Description:
Intrusion Prevention Fundamentals offers an introduction and in-depth overview of Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) technology. Using real-world scenarios and practical case studies, this book walks you through the lifecycle of an IPS project¨Cfrom needs definition to deployment considerations. Implementation examples help you learn how IPS works, so you can make decisions about how [...]
Professional Live Communications Server
Book’s Description:
Live Communications Server is an emerging technology that will be an important component of Microsoft’s business solutions in the coming years; this book is the ultimate guide to LCS
The expert authors cover audio and video conferencing and explain how to integrate VoIP and other telephone systems
Shows readers how to secure instant messaging both [...]









