APPN
Concepts, Architecture and Design
Published on 1. November 1996
Book
Hardback
513 pages
978-0-07-024279-1 (ISBN)
Description
Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking (APPN) is the recent IBM network architecture built to facilitate client/server computing and set to take over from Systems Network Architecture (SNA). This text explains in non-technical terms, how APPN works and how the change from SNA to APPN can be achieved. It should be useful to network administrators and managers working with SNA and TCP/IP. Coverage includes information on High Performance Routing (HPR) - IBM's high speed networking product.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
index
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-07-024279-1 (9780070242791)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
History and development of SNA; SNA tutorial; networking in the 1990s; the challenge to SNA; the evolution of APPN; APPN architecture and operation; APPN and network management; APPN and SAN networks; neweer features of APPN; building an APPN network; APPN at the crossroads; sources of information; architectured APPN modes and classes of service.