Enterprise Networking
Subtitle: Multilayer Switching and Applications
Contributors: Vasilis Theoharakis (Editor); Dimitrios Nikolaou Serpanos (Editor)
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: December 24, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781930708174
Subjects: Computer Communications & Networking; Office systems & equipment; Microcomputer Networks; Computers; Business Enterprise; Wide area networks (Computer n; Computers - Communications / Networking; Local area networks (Computer networks); Computer Books: General; Local area networks (Computer; Networking - General; Business enterprises; Wide area networks (Computer networks); General; Computer networks
First sentence: In this chapter we give the motivation and basic concepts of the OSI reference model, discuss its seven-layer architecture, the communications between systems using the OSI model, and finally the relationship between the OSI model and multilayer switching.