# Exploring the Internet: A Technical Travelogue

Exploring The Internet
══A Technical Travelogue══
CARL MALAMUD
Exploring the Internet is a travel book in the classic sense. In 3 trips around the world in 6 months, Carl Malamud undertakes a voyage of discovery, a look at the Internet and the emerging global village. In 21 countries and 56 cities, here are just a few of the stops in this technical travelogue:
* In Tokyo, Malamud takes a behind-the-scenes look at the world's most expensive building, the Tokyo City Hall, and introduces you to Jun Murai, the Internet Samurai, one of Japan's leading researchers and the architect of the country's national network.
* In Singapore, he digs into the government's highly ambitious plans to make an Intelligent Island, a digital port for the network highways.
* In Silicon Valley, he meets the man with the bike, a digital nomad who pedals around the country on a 500—pound bicycle equipped with a half-dozen computers and a head mouse.
* In Geneva, Malamud wages battle with the international standards cartel in an effort to make standards documents more widely available.
Designed to give professionals in the computer and communications fields an in-depth look at worldwide networking, this intriguing narrative helps you gain a unique technical perspective on the Internet and how it is built.
About the Author
Carl Malamud is the author of seven professional reference books including STACKS and a three-volume series that includes Analyzing DECnet/OSI Phase V and Analyzing Sun Networks. He has written for publications ranging from Communications Week to the Bangkok Post.
Exploring the Internet
A Technical Travelogue
Exploring the Internet
A Technical Travelogue
Carl Malamud
PTR Prentice Hall Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey 07632
Contents
Foreword and Preface, in which we secure funding for a voyage which will take us three times around the world in six months and give new meaning to the phrase "many fine lunches and dinners."
Prologue: The Document Liberation Front, in which we delve into the abyss of international politics and wade through hordes of Jehovah's Witnesses to examine a Bulgarian FEP.
Geneva•Prague•Zürich•Geneva•Paris•Boulder
Round 1: From INTEROP to IETF, in which we meet the Internet Samurai and the Uncle of the NSFNET and go to the zoo to witness the birth of EBONE.
San Jose•Honolulu•Tokyo•Fujisawa•Akihabara Hong Kong•Macau•Singapore•Dublin•Amsterdam London•Tampere•Paris•Geneva•Nice•Geneva Ithaca•New York•Washington, D.C.•Santa Fe•Boulder
Round 2: From Christmas to Cleveland, in which we encounter a massively parallel bicycle in ML View, find magic boxes in Oz, and go swimming in the Sea of Acronyms in Europe.
Berkeley•Mt. View•San Francisco•Moffet Field Wellington•Dunedin•Auckland•Melbourne•Sydney Canberra•Adelaide•Singapore•Kuala Lumpur•Bangkok Amsterdam•Utrecht•Bonn•Brussels•Paris Washington, D.C.•Cleveland•Chicago•Boulder
Round 3: In Search of a Standards Haven, in which we meet the world's most intelligent building, try to convince people to do the bloody obvious, and learn the origins of the Internet
Marina del Rey•San Francisco•Tokyo•Seoul Taipei•Hong Kong•Bombay•Madison•Boulder
Index
What is INTEROP?
INTEROP—The Interoperability Conference and Exhibition—was developed to help you understand the rapid and far-reaching changes in the computer and communications industries. INTEROP Fall (San Francisco Bay Area) and INTEROP Spring (Washington, D.C.) are the premier networking computing educational forums, and Interop Company is pleased to include a copy of this Prentice Hall professional reference book in the course materials of all INTEROP conference attendees.
INTEROP provides a leading edge technical program consisting of several dozen in-depth tutorials, 50 conference sessions, and informal Birds of a Feather sessions. The unique INTEROP exhibition provides a "laboratory of learning" where vendors demonstrate the interoperability of their products and technologies through a connection to the show network. INTEROP's exclusive Solutions Showcase™ Demonstrations feature competing vendors cooperatively demonstrating the interoperability of their products and illustrating the benefits of new and emerging technologies.
To request more information about INTEROP:
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Exploring The Internet
══A Technical Travelogue══
CARL MALAMUD
After traveling around the world 3 times in 6 months and visiting 56 cities in 21 countries, Carl Malamud chronicles the results of his voyage of discovery in Exploring the Internet: A Technical Travelogue. In an easy-to-understand narrative style, he provides you with technically sophisticated descriptions of everything from new networking research to efforts to build national and international infrastructures to the many fine lunches and dinners he enjoyed. This book is a technical travelogue that looks at people, laboratories, and institutions that illustrate the incredible scope and diversity of the Internet.
Here are just a few of the places he visited:
* In Hong Kong, Malamud explored the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club where a massive network handles millions of bets each race day.
* In Amsterdam, he witnessed the birth of EBONE, a long-awaited pan-European research backbone, and visited EUnet, an organization on the front lines of the push into places like Tunisia, Algeria, and Bulgaria.
* In Cleveland, Malamud visited with Tom Grundner, a network evangelist who puts community networks together and spreads the faith in places like Peoria.
STACKS, also by Carl Malamud, presents a technically sophisticated overview of interoperability in today's computer networks. Bringing key technical trends into perspective, STACKS combines descriptions with case studies on subjects ranging from HIPPI to ATM, SONET to Frame Relay, and SMDS to Broadband ISDN. The book shows how technology is used and includes real-world studies of gigabit testbeds, terabit networks, and digital libraries.
"SLACKS succeeds marvelously ... a great book."
          Dr. Marshall T. Rose
ISBN 0-13-296898-3
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