NOTAS: | "The authors explain local, metropolitan, and wide-area broadband networks for integrating voice, data, image, and video. Modern telecommunications systems, such as high-speed networks, are examined, along with the genesis of broadband networks, comparative ATM switch architecture, traffic management strategies, all-optical network concepts, and the relationships between LANs, MANs, WANs, ATM, and broadband ISDN. Discussions include highlighted sections on mathematical development and a selection of problem sets." |