Chapter 15: Network Services and Protocols for Multimedia Communications

Web Resources

A Computer Networks Book by William Stallings

This site is intended to provide support for instructors and students using the book.

Book: Foundations of Modern Networking: SDN, NFV, QoE, IoT, and Cloud

Stallings has an introductory book on some of the recent advances in the networking field, including Software Defined Networking (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Internet of Things (IoT), etc.

Book: Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, 7th Edition

A book with general discussions on computer networks and data communications.

SONET FAQs

You can find SONET FAQs here.

Broadband Forum

Broadband Forum is the communications industry’s leading organization focused on accelerating broadband innovation, standards, and ecosystem development.

Digital Subscriber Line

Digital subscriber line (DSL; originally digital subscriber loop) is a family of technologies that are used to transmit digital data over telephone lines.

Introduction Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) - UBC ECE

Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) was an attempt by telephone companies to design a network architecture that could efficiently transport both voice and data.

Ethernet Transport and its Service Technology

A white paper on 10 gigabit ethernet.

IEEE 802 Standards

IEEE 802 is a family of IEEE standards dealing with local area networks and metropolitan area networks.

Download IEEE 802 Standards

You can download IEEE 802 standards from here.

Google Statistics: IPv6 Adoption Graph

Google collects statistics about IPv6 adoption in the Internet on an ongoing basis. You can see these graphs from here.

IETF RFCs (Request for Comments)

IPv6 (Internet Protocol, Version 6):

• http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1752.txt
• http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2460.txt