In a prior edition of this book the preface commenced with the paraphrase of an old adage in an era of evolving local area networking technology: Ethernet is dead—long live Ethernet! Although advances in communications technology continue to occur at a rapid pace, that paraphrase continues to be valid. Within the past decade, the bandwidth of 10 Mbps Ethernet was advanced by a factor of one thousandwith the introduction of a series of enhancements to the original Ethernet specification. First, Fast Ethernet resulted in the bandwidth of Ethernet increasing by a factor of 10 to 100 Mbps. The introduction of Gigabit Ethernet resulted in another order of magnitude increase | Ethernet Networks: Design, Implementation, Operation, Management. Gilbert Held Copyright 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. ISBN: 0-470-84476-0 ethernet networks Fourth Edition Books by Gilbert Held, published by Wiley Quality of Service in a Cisco Networking Environment 0 470 84425 6 (April 2002) Bulletproofing TCP/IP-Based Windows NT/2000 Networks 0 471 49507 7 (April 2001) Understanding Data Communications: From Fundamentals to Networking, Third Edition 0 471 62745 3 (October 2000) High Speed Digital Transmission Networking: Covering T/E-Carrier Multiplexing, SONET and SDH, Second Edition 0 471 98358 6 (April 1999) Data Communications Networking Devices: Operation, Utilization and LAN and WAN Internetworking, Fourth Edition 0 471 97515 X (November 1998) Dictionary of Communications Technology: Terms, Definitions and Abbreviations, Third Edition 0 471 97517 6 (May 1998) Internetworking LANs and WANs: Concepts, Techniques and Methods, Second Edition 0 471 97514 1 (May 1998) LAN Management with SNMP and RMON 0 471 14736 2 (September 1996) ethernet networks Fourth Edition ♦ Design ♦ Implementation ♦ Operation ♦ Management GILBERT HELD 4-Degree Consulting, Macon, Georgia, USA Copyright 2003 John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 8SQ, England Telephone (+44) 1243 779777 Email (for orders and customer service enquiries): cs-books@ Visit our Home Page on or All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except under the terms of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP, UK, without the permission in writing of the Publisher. Requests to the Publisher should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John .
