I've been trying to write a few weeks worth of presentations for a local
group, and was initially just having difficulty in coming up with an
outline. I also was wanting to provide links for more information for
anyone who wanted to go further into a topic. As you might expect,
merely putting either of those terms into a search engine returns
millions of links. There doesn't seem to be an easy way to find the
resources I'm looking for by using a search engine.
Aha! (I said), I know an easier path. I'll ask over on LOPSA. Please
note that this is an ambitious piece, since I'd like to start with "why
ethernet won over decnet/token ring" (yes, it did, and Yes, I'm that
old). Here's a great write up on Ethernet (for example):
http://web.mit.edu/6.933/www/Ethernet.pdf
I'd probably also have a brief explanation of circuit switching as
opposed to packet switching, and why they're related, and why it's
important that computer networks use the latter and not the former. Hey,
I *said* it was ambitious.
One of the things I see in most books is that either they're written
from a particular hardware perspective (Cisco dominates, of course), or
tend to be text books, and may leave out things that are interesting,
but not useful to the student (such as SONET).
*Any* suggestions are welcome, including suggested resources, and I'll
probably just put this up on my site once I'm done, for others to refer to.
Thanks in advance.
--
A picture is worth 10K words -- but only those to describe
the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately
described with pictures.
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