Product Description

A complete guide to SNA networks and how to integrate them into your TCP/IP backbone in a quick, easy–reference format Illustrated SNA You′re a network administrator for a Fortune 500 company who has to move business data from a mainframe to a desktop in real time. Or maybe you′re a network manager trying to integrate mainframes with AS/400s in order to integrate legacy data with current data. This valuable reference guide gives you everything you need to fully understand SNA and integrate it smoothly into your existing TCP/IP environment. Illustrated SNA uses graphics to provide clear examples of the various SNA protocols and TCP/IP technologies. The PowerPoint slides on the accompanying CD–ROM give you one of the most valuable ready–to–use presentation tools you′ll ever find. This easy–to–read guide also
∗ Shows you how to fully integrate SNA into your corporate intranet
∗ Explains and diagrams TCP/IP integration technologies
∗ Recommends the best ways of leveraging IP networks to transport SNA traffic
∗ Clearly explains and diagrams Legacy SNA
∗ Gives you an APPN overview complete with diagrams
CD–ROM contains: PowerPoint slides drawn from the book for use in your presentations, seminars, or reports Wiley Computer Publishing. Timely. Practical. Reliable. Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3378827 in Books
• Published on: 1998-12-23
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 242 pages

From the Back Cover
A complete guide to SNA networks and how to integrate them into your TCP/IP backbone in a quick, easy–reference format Illustrated SNA You’re a network administrator for a Fortune 500 company who has to move business data from a mainframe to a desktop in real time. Or maybe you’re a network manager trying to integrate mainframes with AS/400s in order to integrate legacy data with current data. This valuable reference guide gives you everything you need to fully understand SNA and integrate it smoothly into your existing TCP/IP environment. Illustrated SNA uses graphics to provide clear examples of the various SNA protocols and TCP/IP technologies. The PowerPoint slides on the accompanying CD–ROM give you one of the most valuable ready–to–use presentation tools you’ll ever find. This easy–to–read guide also

• Shows you how to fully integrate SNA into your corporate intranet
• Explains and diagrams TCP/IP integration technologies
• Recommends the best ways of leveraging IP networks to transport SNA traffic
• Clearly explains and diagrams Legacy SNA
• Gives you an APPN overview complete with diagrams

CD–ROM contains: PowerPoint slides drawn from the book for use in your presentations, seminars, or reports Wiley Computer Publishing. Timely. Practical. Reliable. Visit our Web site at www.wiley.com/compbooks/

About the Author
MARK PATAKY has 25 years of experience in the data processing world with over 17 in SNA and communications. He is currently a regional systems engineering manager with Bay Networks.

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Customer Reviews

An overview of classic SNA and some of the newer techniques
The author uses an overview style to describe, in supprising detail, classical SNA (which he irritatingly keeps refering to as "legacy"). This section of the book is an excelent introduction to SNA, and I have used it as such with VTAM systems programmer trainees in my own company.

The second part of the book deals with trying to integrate SNA into a TCP/IP network. It has descriptions of LAN technologies, data link switching, ATM, frame relay, and APPN. All are dealt with in a very readable style; you can pick and choose any section (1-3 pages) to read as it takes your interest.

My only complaints are his proof reading needs to be improved (one page has both "cues" and "queues"). And in the same vein some of the many illustration (also supplied in Powerpoint format on an included CD) are either on the wrong page, or missing completely.

In summary, a useful addition to the technical library anywhere.