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		Gigabit Ethernet: Technology and Applications for High-Speed LANs by Rich Seifert ISBN-10: 0201185539 ISBN-10: 0-201-18553-9 ISBN-13: 9780201185539 ISBN-13: 978-0-201-18553-9 Paperback 1998-05-01 Addison-Wesley Professional Find Lowest Price
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Amazon.com If you don't mind a little corny humor mixed in with your technology, then you'll be delighted with Rich Seifert's Gigabit Ethernet. Written in an unpretentious, highly accessible style, this book provides an enlightening overview of Gigabit Ethernet and offers a historical peek into the Ethernet world. Despite Seifert's personal history (he was one of the original architects of the Ethernet standard), he refrains from the hard sell, instead offering a balanced, reasonably objective take on the subject. The book does lack a centralized glossary; however, the abundant and generous footnotes and clear text more than make up for this shortcoming. Gigabit Ethernet is divided into three parts--Foundations of Gigabit Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet Technology, and Applying Gigabit Ethernet. The first section strolls down memory lane, telling the story of Ethernet itself, one of the industry's most venerated technologies. Seifert ends these preliminary chapters with sections on how Gigabit Ethernet will address some of the older technology's drawbacks. The section on Gigabit Ethernet technology begins with an overview of the standard and its technological fundamentals, ends with the irreverently titled "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Gigabit Ethernet Standard," and delves into media access control, hubs, and physical layer architecture in between. Wrapping up this volume are chapters covering how Gigabit Ethernet would be deployed in a real-world network, performance issues, and competing technologies. --Sarah L. Roberts-Witt
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Great buy - Has everything you need to know about GigE There are few people out there who can write about technology in a clear and easy to understand way. Seifert is one of them (Doug Comer is another that comes to mind). Seifert's style is very easy to read and this book is no exception. It didn't give me a headache like other technolgy books do :) I highly recommend this book for anyone who is interested to know more about Gigabit Ethernet technology, systems, cabling, applications. Its very comprehensive. Happy reading!
Seifert rocks hard! Seifert walks you through and gives you the core concepts you need to understand the evolution of Ethernet to the Gigabit and Multi-Gigabit speeds. Very well layed out.
Fantastic introduction into Gigabit Ethernet This book is fantastic if you need to get a grasp of Gigabit Ethernet fairly quickly. The explanations are clear and concise and it's fairly easy to read. I skipped the first couple of chapters because I wasn't concerned with some of the historical perspective, and the book was still very readable. It has the best explanation of 8b/10b encoding and autoconfiguration I've found as well as doing a good job describing the differences between Gigabit Ethernet and the 10Mbps and 100Mbps versions. There's even a little humor to spice the book up. It is bad engineering humor, but humor nonetheless.
Excellent book with a lot of meaty information Well written and full of information. Excellent comparison in the last chapter of ATM to Gb E-net. If you need a book on Ethernet, get this one. So many books just have a lot of text with very dry information in the form of opinions (nothing you can sink your teeth into) but this book has very good information presented very cogently. If you want just one book on networking and specifically upon Ethernet, get this book! If you are installing or supporting a network, get this book! It has tables on "Ethernet Media Designations" (e.g. 10Base-FL) so you buy the right stuff, and other tables such as "Switching vs Repeating", "Full-Duplex Media Support", and "Link Propagation Delays" which are very clear and helpful. I wish I had had this book three years ago when I was converting our old network over from coax to UTP/10BaseT.
An Excellent Source On Ethernet An excellent and must have book on ethernet. Glad to see someone involved in the standards process decipher the ethernet, fast eternet and gigabit standards. Very easy to understand and focuses on the practical aspects.

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