Local area network design /
Andrew Hopper, Steven Temple and Robin Williamson.
- England : Addision-Wesley Publishing Company, c1986
- xi, 180 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Hierarchy of networks -- Chapter 3. Local area network architectures -- Chapter 4. Ring networks -- Chapter 5. The cambridge ring -- Chapter 6. Interfacing to local networks -- Chapter 7. A local network case study -- Chapter 8. A high-speed ring network -- Chapter 9. Concluding networks.
The coming into use of wide-band local area networks in the later 1970s was a signal event in the development of the computer field.