IEEE standards for local and metropolitan area networks
Subtitle: Integrated Services (IS) LAN interface at the Medium Access Control (MAC) and Physical (PHY) Layers
By: sponsor, Technical Committee on Computer Communications of the IEEE Computer Society.
Contributors: IEEE Computer Society. Technical Committee on Computer Communications.; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.; IEEE Standards Board.
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York, N.Y., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 427
Subjects: Local area networks (Computer networks) -- Standards -- United States.; Metropolitan area networks (Computer networks) -- Standards -- United States.; Computer interfaces -- Standards -- United States.
Other titles: Standards for local and metropolitan area networks.; Integrated Services (IS)
Description: A unified access method that offers integrated services (IS) to the desktop for a variety of publicly and privately administered backbone networks (e.g., ANSI FDDI, IEEE 802.x, and ISDN) is defined. In addition, the interface at the MAC sublayer and the PHY Layer is specified.
Notes: "IEEE Std 802.9-1994."

"Approved September 22, 1994, IEEE Standards Board."

"December 30, 1994"--Cover.

"Local and metropolitan area networks"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 13-17).