Gigabit Ethernet Technology & Applications for Hith-Speed LANs

Seifert walks you through and gives you the core concepts you need to understand the evolution of Ethernet to the Gigabit and Multi-Gigabit speeds. Very well layed out.

This book is fantastic if you need to get a grasp of Gigabit Ethernet fairly quickly. The explanations are clear and concise and it's fairly easy to read. I skipped the first couple of chapters because I wasn't concerned with some of the historical perspective, and the book was still very readable.It has the best explanation of 8b/10b encoding and autoconfiguration I've found as well as doing a good job describing the differences between Gigabit Ethernet and the 10Mbps and 100Mbps versions.There's even a little humor to spice the book up. It is bad engineering humor, but humor nonetheless.

Well written and full of information. Excellent comparison in the last chapter of ATM to Gb E-net. If you need a book on Ethernet, get this one. So many books just have a lot of text with very dry information in the form of opinions (nothing you can sink your teeth into) but this book has very good information presented very cogently.If you want just one book on networking and specifically upon Ethernet, get this book! If you are installing or supporting a network, get this book! It has tables on "Ethernet Media Designations" (e.g. 10Base-FL) so you buy the right stuff, and other tables such as "Switching vs Repeating", "Full-Duplex Media Support", and "Link Propagation Delays" which are very clear and helpful.I wish I had had this book three years ago when I was converting our old network over from coax to UTP/10BaseT.

This book not only covers Gigabit Ethernet, but ethernet in all its varieties. Rich Seifert covers everything very clearly systematically.There is a fair amount of repetition across chapters, possibly so that each chapter can be read independently and out of sequence.

Rich Seifert is an engineer who has been instrumental in designing LAN standards for many years, he is also an excellent communicator / teacher and writer. This book covers all the essential information you need to know about Gigabit Ethernet - including enough technical depth for an engineer designing products while not scaring off an IT professional just trying to figure out how to design the cable plant to support the LAN. Network planners trying to decide on which products to buy will also find a roadmap of important criteria to consider in this book. It is always hard to find just the right balance that will meet the needs of so many audiences but Rich Seifert found that balance. If you can only buy one book on Gigabit Ethernet, buy this one.