Database and Network Journal Library.

Understanding Digital Subscriber Line Technology

Stan, Thomas; Cioffi, John M; Silverman, Peter Upper Saddle River, NJ, USA Prentice Hall PTR 1999 xviii+474 ISBN 0-13-780545-4 Hbk

The copper pair from a fixed wire telephone can usually be adapted to carry greatly enhanced signal capacity using DLS technology. This book not only tells you how but how it all came about. The built-in CD-ROM contains all the historical standard documents and conference reports detailing the developments as they evolved.

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Governance in "Cyberspace": Access and Public Interest in Global Communications

Grewlich, Klaus W The Hague, Netherlands Kluwer Law International 1999 xxii+405 ISBN 90-411-1225-1 Hbk

"Cyberspace' is the emerging invisible,; intangible world of electronic information and processes stored at multiple interconnected sites. The digital revolution leads to convergence' (of telecommunications, computer/Internet and broadcasting) and to dynamic multimedia value chains. Deregulation and competition are major driving forces in the new interactive electronic environment. This volume contains normative proposals for cyber `regulation, including serf-regulation, grounded on developments in the EU, US and the Far East, in international organisations (WTO, OECD, WIPO, 1W), in business for a, in NGOs, in the `Interact community' and in academic research. The multi-actor (government, business, civil society) and multi-level analysis (subsidiarity) pertains e.g. to ex-ante and expost access-regulation, competition, network economics (external effects, essential facilities), public interest principles (human dignity, free speech, privacy, security), development and culture, consumer protection, cryptography, domain names and copyright. Lawyers, regulators, business executives, investment bankers, diplomats and civil society representatives need shared essentials of plurilateral `governance 'to safeguard both competition and public interest objectives, on a scale congruent to `Cyberspace', in the transition to constitutionalizing the international law of cooperation."

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IP Routing Fundamentals

Sportak, Mark A Indianapolis, IN, USA Cisco Press 1999 xvii+510 ISBN 1-57870-071 -X 36.99 [pounds sterling] Pbk

Routing can be oversimplified as looking up a table in order to find out where to send the messages. Routers do a lot more than look up addresses and even addresses are considerably more complicated than the received wisdom holds them out to be.

This is an everchanging field but such is the timescale of implementing change (for masons of caution and integrity) that the next generation is always visible in a moving timeframe. Such upcoming changes as IPv6 (the next generation IP addresses) and other pending changes are all explained.

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Upgrading and Repairing Networks, Second Edition

Ogletree, Terry William Indianapolis, IN, USA Que 1999 xxi [+ or -] 979 ISBN 0-7897-2034-S Pbk 36.50 [pounds sterling]

Besides a great deal of explanation this book deals extensively with troubleshooting and migration of networks between systems. The bound-in CD-ROM contains useful software and has the ability to boot a live file system for troubleshooting.

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Programming Applications with the Wireless Application Protocol

Mann, Steve New York, NY, USA John Wiley & Sons 2000 xvi [+ or -] 226 0-471-32754-9 32.50 [pounds sterling] Hbk

The Microbrowser in a cellphone interprets the messages it receives in Wireless Markup Language (WML). The book tells you how to make all this work. The Software Developer's Kit (SDK) on the bound-in CD-ROM enables you to do it.

30.3.00 5210

Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World

Schneier, Bruce New York, NY, USA John Wiley & Sons 2000 xiii+412 0-471-25311-1 Hbk 19.50 [pounds sterling]

The author spread the messages "Security is a chain; it's only as secure as its weakest link" and "Security is a process, not a product". It is necessary to understand these messages if we wish to have a secure system. The author enjoins us to read the book twice.

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Communications Technology Explained

Norris, Mark Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons 2000 x+275 ISBN 0471-98625-9 Pbk 29.95 [pounds sterling]

Not quite a beginner's book but certainly a book for those needing a broad view of telecommunications based networking, both voice and data.

30.3.00 5215

Telecommunications, Broadcasting and the Internet: E.U. Competition Law and Regulation

Garsaniti, L J H F London, UK Sweet & Maxwell 2000 xxxiv+365 ISBN0421-65150-4 Hbk 95 [pounds sterling]

A fully referenced explanation of the law in the topics covered by the title. The only comment we would make is on the impossibility of keeping such a book up to date and so it does not appear to us in the Interact age that a bound book is appropriate. Nevertheless you will find the answer as to what the law was at January 1, 2000 in this book.

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Managing IP Addresses: How to Number Your Network for Growth and Change

Dutcher, Bill New York, NY, USA John Wiley & Sons 2000 xxiv+310 ISBN 0471-25484-3 Pbk 32.50 [pounds sterling]

The logic of numeric IP addresses is straightforward enough but demand has outgrown the natural capacity' of the system. Arrangements have been made to get round the problems that have arisen and the impact is discussed in this book.

30.3.00 5208

A Business Guide to Changes in European Data Protection Legislation

Cullen International The Hague, Netherlands Kluwer Law International 1999 xxvii [+ or -] 321 ISBN 90411-1032-1 Hbk

An Article by Article commentary on two EU Directives. `Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data. And The Telecommunications Directive (97/66/EC), European Parliament and Council Directive concerning the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the telecommunications sector' which have recently come into effect. There is also a Business Overview which presumably justifies the rifle of the book although it only occupies a small part of the total. As a native born English speaker we do have difficulty with parts of the book which introduce what appears to us as unnatural language that should have been improved in copy editing.

A full hypertext version of the book is available for UKP299. A demonstration floppy disk of the hypertext version is supplied bound into the book. The price of the book has not been stated by the publisher but whate it is UKP299 for what is presumeably a CD-ROM appears excessive.

20.9.00 5263

Client/Server Information Systems. A Business-Oriented Approach

Goldman, James E; Rawles, Phillip T; Mariga, Julie R. New York, NY, USA John Wiley & Sons, Inc 1999 xx+668 ISBN 0-471-29654-6 Pbk 25.95 [pounds sterling]

A course text written by academics in a US University. The intent of the course is to prepare students for designing, creating and then running networked computer applications.

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Remote Access Networks and Services: The Interact Access Companion

Ibe, Oliver C New York, NY, USA John Wiley & Sons 1999 xvii+366 ISBN 0-471-34820-1 Hbk 32.50 [pounds sterling]

"Oliver C The provides you with the technical background you need to confidently select and implement the best remote access technologies for your company's network. He fills you in on everything you should know about how remote traffic is processed from source to network, and the technologies, services, and protocols it is likely to encounter along the way. He also acquaints you with all the remote access devices currently on the market, and describes, in detail, how each will perform with legacy networking services and technologies."

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