High-Performance Networks, Personal Communications and Mobile Computing

Many professionals in the technology industry are seeking new solutions beyond the confines of the more traditional type software tools, network design solutions and distributed systems applications. The aim of this book is to provide for them a much needed upgrade of knowledge and skills by addressing the developing technical and business perspectives which have emerged from the deregulation of telecommunications, including issues connected to costs and tariffs. It also addresses a comprehensible introduction to the research, development and implementation of agents. Based on thorough research undertaken from 1993-96 in the United States, Europe and Japan, much practical material is included, with both comprehensive examples and case studies.

Autorentext

Dimitris N. Chorafas served on the faculty of the Catholic University of America and as Visiting Professor at Washington State University, George Washington University, University of Vermont, University of Florida, and Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, as well as the University of Alberta, Technical University of Karlsruhe, Ecole d'Etudes Industrielles de l'Université de Genève, Ecole Polytechnic Fédérale de Lausanne, Polish Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences. More than 8,000 banking, industrial and government executives participated in his seminars in the United States, England, Germany, Italy, other European countries, Asia and Latin America. Chorafas is the author of 160 books, translated into several languages world-wide.

Inhalt
Foreword; A.Rudge - The New Generation of High Performance Networks - Communications Technology and the Impact of Tariffs - Value-Added Networks in the Mid to Late 1990s - Internet: A Global Data and Voice Solution? - Hardware Challenges with Network Design - Legacy and Competitive Systems in Communications - Software Challenges with Network Design - Realtime Distributed Communications and Their Security - Personal Communications Solutions - Low Earth Orbit Satellites and Radio Networks - Learning from Past Failures and Complex Solutions - Projects a Successful Organization should undertake as Top Priority