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About the Editor

Gilbert Held is an award winning internationally recognized author and lecturer. He is the author of more than 40 technical books and 250 articles. Gil is the only person to twice win the highly competitive Karp Award. In addition, he has received an award from the American Publishing Institute, was selected to represent the United States at technical conferences in Moscow and Jerusalem, and was named as one of the top 100 persons in government, industry, and academia by Federal Computer Week for making a difference in the acquisition and utilization of computers. Some of Gil’s recent titles include Working with Network Based Images, Enhancing LAN Performance: Issues and Answers, second edition, Ethernet Networks, third edition, and Data and Image Compression, fourth edition, all published by John Wiley & Sons of New York City and Chichester, U.K. Gil can be reached via email at 235-8068@mcimail.com.

Contributors

C. Warren Axelrod, Senior Vice President, Corporate Information Systems, Carroll McEntee & McGinley Inc., Great Neck, NY

Lee Benjamin, Managing Consultant, New Technology Partners, Bedford, NH

Al Berg, Director of Strategic Technologies, NETLAN Inc., New York, NY

Charles Breakfield, Senior Network Architect, Andersen Consulting, Dallas, TX

David Briant, Vice President of Operations, MBI Communications Ltd., Guelph, ON, Canada

Roxanne Burkey, Independent Consultant, Dallas, TX

Bill Camarda, Consultant, Ramsey, NJ

Gary Cannon, Senior Consultant, GE Information Service, New York, NY

Dale Cohen, Electronic Messaging Team Project Manager, R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., Chicago, IL

Sally Crawford, President and Chief Executive Officer, Crawford & Associates, Inc., Rosemont, IL

Dave Cullinane, Security Consultant, Digital Equipment Corp., Littleton, MA

David Curley, Vice President, Worldwide Marketing, Mitel Corp., Kanata, ON, Canada

Vishal Desai, President, Salvi Group, Silver Spring, MD

Lawrence D. Dietz, Vice President of Knowledge Centers, Giga Information Group, Santa Clara, CA

Ernest Eng, Product Architect, Infonet Software Solutions Inc., Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Edward H. Freeman, Attorney, West Hartford, CT

Louis Fried, Vice President, Information Technology Consulting, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA

Leora Frocht, Vice President, Fixed-Income Capital Market Systems, Smith-Barney, New York, NY

Ed Frymoyer, emf Associates, Mountain View, CA

Monica J. Garfield, doctoral student, Department of Management, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Bruce Greenblatt, Directory Architect, Novell, Inc., San Jose, CA

Steve Greer, Product Marketing Manager, Telecommunications Techniques Corp., Germantown, MD

Amitava Haldar, Senior Systems Analyst, AIC Consulting, Chapel Hill, NC

Barbara J. Haley, doctoral student, Management Information Systems Department, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Gilbert Held, Director, 4-Degree Consulting, Macon, GA

Kelly Hilmer, doctoral student, Management Information Systems Department, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Frank Horwitz, Founder and CEO, SecureNet Technologies Inc., Lynnwood, WA

Sami Jajeh, Director, Market Development, ExcelleNet Inc., Atlanta, GA

Keith A. Jones, Senior Data Services Consultant, Dun & Bradstreet, Palm Harbor, FL

Diana Jovin, Corporate Marketing Manager, NetDynamics Inc., Menlo Park, CA

Gary C. Kessler, Senior Member, Technical Staff and Chief Information Officer, Hill Associates, Colchester, VT

Keith G. Knightson, Associate Director, Telecom Architect Program, Canadian Government Telecommunications Agency, Kanata, ON, Canada

Bill Koerner, Senior Industry Consultant, Visual Communications Division, Hewlett-Packard Co., Fort Collins, CO

Daniel A. Kosek, Principal, Fountain Rock Technologies Inc., Walkersville, MD

Robin D. Langdon, Senior Product Manager for Broadband Technology, Larscom Inc., Santa Clara, CA

Amin Leiman, Manager, Computer Risk Management, Arthur Andersen & Co., Los Angeles, CA

Chang-Yang Lin, Professor of Computer Information Systems, Department of Information Systems, College of Business, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY

David Litwack, President, dml Associates, Fairfax, VA

Andres Llana, Jr., Consultant, Vermont Studies Group, King of Prussia, PA

Peter Luff, Marketing Manager, Telecommunications Techniques Corp., Germantown, MD

Jack T. Marchewka, Assistant Professor, Management Information Systems, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL

Patrick McKeown, Professor of Management, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia, Athens, GA

Colin Mick, Consultant, Palo Alto, CA

C. Kenneth Miller, Founder and Chairman/Chief Technology Officer, StarBurst Communications, Concord, MA

Martin Miller, Manager, Computer Assurance Services, Deloitte & Touche, Seattle, WA

Nathan J. Muller, Consultant, The Oxford Group, Huntsville, AL

William Hugh Murray, Executive Consultant, Information Systems Security, Deloitte & Touche, New Canaan, CT

Gordon L. Preston, Consulting Manager, Bell Atlantic Network Integration, Frazer, PA

T.M. Rajkumar, Associate Professor of Management Information Systems, Miami University, Oxford, OH

Marcus J. Ranum, Chief Scientist, V-One Corp., Germantown, MD

E. Eugene Schultz, Program Manager, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA

Greg Scileppi, Executive Director, RHI Consulting, Menlo Park, CA

Roshan L. Sharma, Principal, Telecom Network Science, Dallas, TX

John P. Slone, Senior Systems Architect, Lockheed Martin Corp., Orlando, FL

Ralph R. Stahl, Jr., Chief Global Information Security Officer, Architecture Design and Engineering, Worldwide Information Systems, AT&T, Dayton, OH

Martin Taylor, Vice President of Network Architecture, Madge Networks, San Jose, CA

Dan Thomsen, Senior Research Scientist, Secure Computing Corporation, Roseville, MN

Walker, Richer & Quinn, Inc., Seattle, WA

Trenton Waterhouse, Marketing Manager for LAN Switching Systems, Cabletron Systems, Rochester, NH

Doug D. Whittle, Manager, Client Services Department, Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., Des Moines, IA

Leo A. Wrobel, President and Chief Executive Officer, Premiere Network Services Inc., Dallas, TX

Sean Yarborough, Product Marketing Engineer, Telecommunications Techniques Corp., Germantown,MD

Acknowledgments

The preparation of an extensive handbook covering the many aspects of communications systems represents a considerable effort on the part of many persons. Those persons include the authors of the articles included in this handbook who took the time and effort to share their expertise with us, the previous editor of this handbook, Mr. Jim Conard, whose work in structuring this new edition is gratefully acknowledged, and Mr. Theron Shreve for coordinating this project. Last but not least, I would again like to thank Mrs. Linda Hayes for her typing and coordination efforts which produced the manuscript that evolved into this handbook.


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