An Introduction to Broadband Networks: Lans, Mans, Atm, B-Isdn, and Optical Networks for Integrated Multimedia Telecommunications

This is an elementary textbook on an advanced topic. This book is primarily for those who are eager to learn about broadband telecommunication networks and for students.It focuses on the fundamentals of operation, architectures, protocols, and development of different kind of integrated broadband networks.The different chapters about the LANs and MANs give the readers a very god knowledge about those networks. Different kinds of packet switching networks and their architectures are also covered extensively.Fastly devoloping ATM and ISDN technologies are also being explained in this book.In overall it is a very good book for aspiring learners.