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Great white paper collection from websites around the Internet. Helpful tool for bookmarking or printing for on-the-job reference. Enjoy and as always, feel free to suggest a listing.

3Com White Papers

  • 3Com has an outstanding white paper collection, a must visit. Includes frame relay, ATM, ethernet, fast ip, isdn, management, multicast ip, packet telephony, relational databases, remote access, security, sna, switching, telecommuting, token ring, virtual private networks and wans.

Access Concentrator White Paper

  • This ADC Kentrox white paper describes the capabilities of an Access Concentrator, compares it to alternative access devices, and discusses the market drivers for network access in a time of service transition.

Adding POTS to Frame Relay Access Line Can Ease Cost Burden

  • Written by Steven Taylor and Joanie Wexler, authors of the twice-weekly Frame Relay Newsletter, this paper describes how their approach potentially could keep you from having to purchase other circuits for voice while also offsetting some of the cost crunch of an undersubscribed frame relay T1 access circuit. We highly recommend this paper and subscribing to the authors twice-weekly Frame Relay Newsletter.

All About WAN Access (PDF)

  • Quick Eagle Networks prepared this 13 page (PDF) document to assist "newbies" in learning about Wide Area Networking (WAN) Access. Recommended because it gives the reader a foundation on which to build their WAN knowledge.

AppleTalk 101

  • Compatible Systems examines how each AppleTalk physical network segment is assigned a network number/range by the routers on the segment. The network number (or range of numbers) can be between 1 to 65,279.

AS/400 Network Migration To Frame Relay or ISDN

  • Motorola provides a superb white paper on how to migrate an AS/400 network to frame relay or ISDN.

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line Paper

  • RAD does a good job of describing ADSL technology and has a whole chapter on DMT vs. CAP, the two main modulation methods that can be used with ADSL technology.

ATM and IP - Friends or Foes?

  • Jtec Pty Limited in Australia explores the origins of ATM and IP, their driving forces, and whether current and new technology will continue to favour the use of IP for end user non-real time applications and ATM for integrated carriage of voice, data and clock sensitive traffic.

ATM Broadband Primer

  • Jtec Pty Limited in Australia does a great job of explaining ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode Technology). The visual diagrams are excellent and provide a unique learning experience.

ATM Dynamic Bandwidth Management

  • Jtec Pty Limited in Australia discusses the problems associated with dynamic bandwidth management of ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode Technology).

ATM Migration in Higher Education

  • Bay Networks explores why Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) is an emerging technology being adopted by higher educational institutions to deliver the bandwidth and Quality of Service requirements for enterprise network needs.

ATM Protocols

  • Bay Networks examines why ATM was designed to integrate video, voice, and data over a single network. Connectivity can be implemented in many ways, depending on the protocols, applications, and unique needs of a company's business. LANE allows companies to leverage their legacy networks and existing applications to benefit from the speed, the rich QoS, and the scalability of ATM. Companies across the globe have already deployed ATM in the workgroup or backbone to open up bandwidth as intranets/extranets, graphical applications, and mission critical databases have dominated the desktop. In the wide area, ATM service offerings are steadily increasing as businesses evaluate the cost-effective solution of integrating voice, video and data from remote or branch offices. ATM is ready to enable next generation computing and empower businesses to grow with intelligent applications in the future.

ATM: Sales Finally Match The Hype

  • The Vertical Systems Group offers a comprehensive analysis of the "business side" of ATM technology. They conclude that first everyone loved ATM, then everyone hated it. Today, practicality has set in: People buy it.

AT&T - BT IP Technology Platform Paper

  • This fascinating white paper details how IP is transforming AT&T, BT and the telecommunications industry.

AT&T High Speed Packet Services White Paper

  • AT&T is the first carrier to offer rate-based, closed-loop congestion management for ATM. This white paper describes this break-through service in detail.

Bandwidth Management Technologies White Paper

  • MICOM examines in great detail how in wide area networking, WAN costs are proportional to bandwidth consumed. The more bandwidth you need, the more you pay. Additionally, be sure to visit the Bandwidth Glossary.

Bay Networks Technology Articles

  • Tony Rybczynski, Paul Thieken and Mark Tharby of Bay Networks have written 14 feature articles about networking technology. If you are looking for networking technology insight, this is the web page to investigate, highly recommended.

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) White Paper

  • ACC/Ericsson shows the reader how BGP has many dynamic characteristics which make it the best choice as an interface between interior networks using RIP and OSPF and the Internet backbone, an exterior network.

Branch Banking With The FrameNode White Paper (PDF)

  • Fabulous 16 page white paper in (PDF) on the advanced solution for the creation of frame relay-based branch banking networks that includes "stunning visual diagrams." You can thank Sync Research for this classic.

Breaking Down the Barriers to VPN

  • Ascend says VPNs cost about half as much to operate as an equivalent private network. With resiliency and redundancy built into the Next Generation Public Networks, VPNs are capable of providing the same level of reliability as most private networks.

Bridging 101

  • Compatible Systems details the concept of bridging networks and how bridges are used to limit the amount of traffic appearing on network segments other than the destination segment. They do not provide for the logical grouping of network devices, which makes them considerably less flexible than routers from the standpoint of network management.

Broadband Solutions For Frame Relay

  • 3Com's technical paper explores how Internet and Frame Relay service providers can take back control of their wide area access networks, reducing costs, increasing manageability, and providing a migration path for the future.

Build Large Frame Relay Networks With OSPF

Bundling Telecommunication Services

  • A VINA Technologies white paper addresses how service providers today are looking for ways to differentiate their offerings and meet the needs of customers. Bundling of services offers potentially significant benefits to both service providers and their customers.

Case for Intelligent Infrastructure

  • A FORE Systems created this white paper that describes an evolutionary approach to managing networks and establishing an Intelligent Infrastructure capable of supporting application convergence and increases in capacity without costly network upgrades.

Channel Aggregation - What Is It?

  • Jtec Pty Limited in Australia discussess the function of channel aggregation, sometimes known as Inverse Multiplexing, is to segment the transmission data stream from a router or other device into partial data streams and transmit these streams over individual channels. At the destination the channel aggregator accepts the data from these channels, recombining the partial data streams into the exact original stream and compensating for variances in propagation delay. To any other device connected to the channel aggregator, the process is transparent as though the data has been received via a single high speed WAN channel.

CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) White Paper

  • ACC/Ericsson teaches how CIDR was developed to assist in the management of the scarce IP address resource and in the reduction of the number of routes which have to be advertised between domains.

Cisco Frame Relay Commands

  • Cisco provides a complete index as well as definitions for ALL Cisco Frame Relay Commands.

Cisco Frame Relay Command Glossary

  • Cisco provides in alphabetical order a complete listing of the commands appearing in sample frame relay configurations that is intended as a supplemental cross-reference. Included under each command is a brief explanation of how and why the command is used in the example scenario.

Cisco Frame Relay Configuration

  • Cisco describes the tasks for configuring Frame Relay on their routers.

Cisco Frame Relay Configuration Diagrams

  • Cisco provides a "stunning resource" with stimulating visual diagrams on how to configure frame relay.

Cisco Frame Relay Design Tool

  • Cisco provides a superb tool for frame relay design, login required. Use this tool to calculate the bandwidth overhead for routing and routed protocols.

Cisco Frame Relay Troubleshooting

  • Cisco explains that if problems arise in the frame relay network, proven techniques can be applied to isolate and solve them. Troubleshooting a frame relay network problem can be broken down into four easy steps according to Cisco.

Cisco LAN to LAN Frame Relay

  • Cisco discusses in a question and answer format how their LAN products support frame relay.

Cisco OSPF White Paper

  • Cisco describes how OSPF is a link state routing protocol. As such, it calls for the sending of link state advertisements (LSAs) to all other routers within the same hierarchical area. Information on attached interfaces, metrics used, and other variables is included in OSPF LSAs. As OSPF routers accumulate link state information, they use the SPF algorithm to calculate the shortest path to each node.

    Thomas M. Thomas II of Cisco Systems has authored an exciting new book called "OSPF Network Design Solutions" featured on CCIE Prep and winner of a 5 Star Review by Amazon.com. We highly recommend this book.

Cisco Router Troubleshooting

  • Cisco helps substantially with this router troubleshooting guide that covers diagnosis, media, booting, booting process systems and recovering lost passwords.

Cisco Sample Configurations

  • Cisco hits one out of the "ballpark" with this great configuration guide.

Cisco Subrate Networking and Frame Relay

  • Cisco explores the migration path to emerging broadband ATM services.

Cisco Troubleshooting Frame Relay

  • Cisco yet again discusses troubleshooting procedures for connectivity problems related to Frame Relay links. Here Cisco describes specific Frame Relay symptoms, the problems that are likely to cause each symptom, and the solutions to those problems.

Cisco Troubleshooting Guide

Compression and Demodulation Technologies White Paper

  • MICOM examines data compression, speech reduction, fax demodulation, modem demodulation, frame relay, and a combination of cell relay and fast packet multiplexing called MicroBand ATM. With these technologies, companies can reduce communications costs by integrating all remote-site data, voice, fax and LAN traffic over one low-cost connection. Furthermore, be sure to explore the Compression/Demodulation Glossary.

Configure IP Services

  • Bay Networks provides "the document" for configuring IP Services on Bay Networks equipment.

Data Compression White Paper

  • ACC/Ericsson does a good job of explaining how squeezing greater capacity from your existing wide area network facilities is easier than you think, and far less expensive than upgrading to a higher speed communications links.

Data Compression (PDF)

  • 13 page white paper (PDF) prepared by General Datacomm (GDC) looks at monthly costs of typical corporate networks in various configurations. And it then compares the costs of deploying a frame relay network with those of a private line network using data compression.

Data Compression For Frame Relay

  • Motorola's paper outlines where the use of data compression makes most sense and discusses the benefits it can provide in various network environments. It will also discuss the more commonly implemented forms of data compression and outline the advantages and shortcomings of each. Additionally, it discusses the differences between internal and external data compression solutions. Furthermore, it suggests the most efficient data compression option for environments with mixed public and private framed data networks.

Data Link Switching (DLSw) White Paper

  • ACC/Ericsson explores how DLSw offers an ideal migration path for customers to consolidate SNA, NetBIOS, and multiprotocol LAN internetworks. DLSw is a low-cost solution that utilizes WAN bandwidth much more efficiently than any other solution such as Source Route Bridging or IP tunneling.

Dial-Up Internetworking White Paper

  • ACC/Ericsson describes that corporate end-users have discovered connecting small remote sites to a corporate backbone via analog dial-up lines or switched digital lines is often more cost-effective than a leased line. In addition to providing access to remote users on an as-needed basis, dial-up internetworking is also being used to economically back up a primary leased line, handle overflow during peak traffic periods, and even provide remote network management.

Dial-Up Point-To-Point Technology

  • ADTRAN does a good job of explaining PPP (Point-To-Point Protocol), PAP (Password Authentication Protocol), CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol), CLI (Calling Line Identification) and finishes with a tunneling overview covering PPTP (Point-to-Point Tunnel Protocol), L2F (Layer 2 Forwarding) and L2TP (Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol).

Digital Subscriber Line White Paper

  • To meet the demand for remote access in our changing environment, Ascend Communications discusses how advances in technology are making it possible to get more from the existing infrastructure. The most promising of these technologies is the Digital Subscriber Line (DSL). This document highlights DSL technology and compares it to three alternatives: analog modems; Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) and cable modems.

DMT vs. CAP (ADSL Technology)

  • Aware, Inc., tackles this "tough" subject area within the DSL Industry, a must read for those interested in DSL Technology.

DTOOL Networking Articles

  • Thomas Porter, a creative networking professional, publishes this highly recommended and useful website that offers outstanding networking technology articles and industry links.

E-Commerce Network White Paper

  • Bay Networks shows you how to build an E-Commerce Network, highly recommended.

E1 Performance Monitoring

  • Larscom discusses how the strategic importance of communications continues to grow at a rapid pace. In today's marketplace, corporations look to their high-speed digital networks to give them a competitive advantage. With so much riding on their networks, managers are becoming more and more quality conscious. When it comes time to implement a new E1 circuit, the quality of the service is just as important as the cost.

Extranet White Paper

  • Bay Networks examines the role of the Extranet in how the Internet is changing business practices.

Firewall Online Security White Paper

  • eSoft examines how a firewall makes decisions on whether or not to allow data to pass based upon a security policy. For each packet of data, the firewall compares known components of the packet to a security rule set and decides if the packet should be allowed to pass. In addition, a firewall may have security rules that involve altering the packet in some basic ways before passing the data. With a sensible security policy and a security rule set designed to implement that policy, a firewall can completely protect a LAN from attacks.

Firewall Switching Agent White Paper (PDF)

  • This FORE Systems 17 page (PDF) white paper explores how the IP network has become the point of convergence for business operations. It is the lowest common denominator for delivery of email, file, transaction, telephony, and interactive audio/video collaborative services. In other words, the IP network has become the critical element supporting all business processes in the enterprise. But, with more and more mission-critical and business sensitive material passing through this open information highway, embedded "bullet-proof" security within the IP network infrastructure becomes an important consideration before rolling your business out over the Internet.

Frame Relay - Data's Best-Kept Secret

Frame Relay - One Of The Best Things

  • George Fragos at WANmaker explores just how useful frame relay really is.

Frame Relay 101

  • Compatible Systems provides a sample frame relay configuration and discusses virtual circuits, addressing, local and global DLCIs, LMI as well as encapsulation and fragmentation.

Frame Relay Overview (PDF)

  • Virginia Tech's Luiz A. DaSilva presents this 15 page (PDF) document. Recommended as an excellent frame relay overview.

Frame Relay: Analysis of the Technology

  • Patricia J. Cutright and Kenneth M. Girrard of Eastern Oregon University do a first rate job of defining frame relay technology, frame relay connectivity and the application of frame relay.

Frame Relay and ATM WAN Technology

  • A white paper from Cisco that discusses how protocols like Frame Relay to ATM Service/Network Interworking will play a major role in allowing existing Frame Relay networks to coexist with ATM-based network environments and helps clarify issues surrounding both Frame Relay and ATM technology.

Frame Relay and Frame UNI in ATM Networks (PDF)

  • 18 page management briefing (PDF) prepared by General Datacomm (GDC) concerning the basic differences between protocols such as ATM, Frame Relay and FUNI.

Frame Relay and Routers White Paper

  • ACC/Ericsson takes the reader through traditional router networks, frame relay networks, internetworking, configuration parameters, operation, standards and router issues. An excellent read worth your time.

Frame Relay Circuit Management

  • ADC Kentrox examines how enterprise and carrier network managers need the ability to monitor bandwidth utilization and performance on Frame Relay circuits, both for day-to-day conditions and trends that develop over time. Enterprise managers want to verify that the network is delivering the bandwidth and throughput they purchased. Carrier managers also want this verification, as well as a way to easily add new users and identify when new capacity will be needed.

Frame Relay Finds Its Voice

  • Tony Rybczynski of Bay Networks explores how the introduction of frame relay multimedia capabilities and the acceptance of carrier ATM infrastructures are changing the very nature of frame relay offerings. Over time, frame relay will be seen increasingly as a lower speed multimedia access ramp onto carrier QOS-rich ATM networks. User connectivity to these network services can be provided via multiservice FRADs and Enterprise Network Switches, both critically important in allowing enterprises to develop integrated multimedia networking to extend their market reach, enhance customer service and gain a competitive advantage - in short to power their businesses.

Frame Relay Report 1998 (PDF)

  • A 21 page presentation in (PDF) to the Frame Relay Forum by Vertical Systems Group describing the "state of the frame relay market" for 1998. An excellent source of information for frame relay service providers and vendors.

Frame Relay Service Level Agreement FAQs

Frame Relay Service Implementation

  • RAD covers important information in this white paper by detailing how the first real consideration for implementing frame relay is whether to utilize a public frame relay service or to implement frame relay within an existing or new private network.

Frame Relay Subinterfaces

  • Cisco describes how subinterfaces provide a flexible solution for routing various protocols over partially-meshed frame relay networks. A single, physical interface can be logically divided into multiple, virtual subinterfaces. The subinterface may be defined as either a point-to-point connection or a multipoint connection.

Frame Relay To ATM Interworking (PDF)

  • Ascend's 12 page (PDF) document that is starting to "mold" with age, 1996. However, you may still find it useful.

Frame Relay To Integrate The Enterprise

  • Dr. Robert C. Raciti, Manager of Enterprise Technology Architecture for the Pitney Bowes Corporation, explores how systems analysts should consider the use of frame relay for corporate applications that incorporate information systems at more than one location because of frame relay's many technical, financial and logistical advantages.

Frame Relay via Satellite

  • ACT Networks describes implementation of a frame relay network via satellite. Very unique, recommended.

Frame Relay Voice White Paper

  • Nuera Communications and Steven Taylor, Contributing Editor - Data Communications Magazine, provide one of the best Voice Over Frame Relay White Papers with outstanding illustrations detailing the compelling economics of this technology.

Gigabit Ethernet

  • Cisco's white paper provides an introduction to Gigabit Ethernet and discusses how Gigabit Ethernet is a viable technology that allows Ethernet to scale from 10/100 Mbps at the desktop to 100 Mbps up the riser to 1000 Mbps in the data center. This paper also explains that by leveraging the current Ethernet standard as well as the installed base of Ethernet and Fast Ethernet switches and routers, network managers do not need to retrain and relearn a new technology in order to provide support for Gigabit Ethernet.

GIGArray Migration: ATM Gain Without Pain

  • Bay Networks GIGArray allows you to embark on a gradual migration to LAN/ATM integration. It delivers the low latency and scalability of ATM, providing a high-speed, high-bandwidth backbone with minimal complexity. By making use of GIGArray, you can deploy your ATM network infrastructure while using Ethernet and Token Ring switching to optimize your existing network.

Guide To Communications Protocols (PDF)

  • One of the most famous "posters" in the industry. Found on at least one wall in any networking shop. Allows you to visualize communication protocols. Thank you Network Associates.

Guide To The New Public Network (PDF)

  • A fabulous snapshot of the new public network as it's being transformed. Network architects-whether they're ordering services or provisioning them-can use it to get the big picture or focus on specific details. Think of it as a planning tool that makes it possible to mix and match the best technologies on the access, transport, and transmission layers. To print out on three pages click here (PDF). Thank you Data Communications Magazine.

Hewlett Packard White Papers

  • HP provides good "primers" on high-speed networking, gigabit ethernet and ip multicast control (igmp).

High Speed Frame Relay (PDF)

  • Ascend's 8 page (PDF) document explores how high speed frame relay is the next logical step in scaling large networks to previously unimagined sizes, speeds, and capacities.

How To Choose A Service Provider For Frame Relay & ATM

  • This Cisco white paper discusses the changing demands on corporate networks, explains how a single-vendor service provider network differs from those based on point solutions, provides examples of benefits of a true end-to-end approach, and shows how to find the best service provider for you.

IBM Glossary

  • IBM Networking provides the most comprehensive glossary available, highly recommended for its broad "selection."

IBM Internetworking White Paper

  • White Paper showing that ACC/Ericsson recognizes the growing demand for a cost-effective peer-to-peer network solution that complements the existing hierarchical System Network Architecture (SNA) networks.

Improving Hybrid Networks

  • The new ADC Kentrox approach to networking allows you to better organize the network connections in each location and get the different WAN interfaces you need in a single, easy-to-manage Access Concentrator. With Hybrid Networking, not only are your network connections simpler, you can also eliminate racks of overlapping, single-purpose access equipment.

Internet Protocol Adapter Design

  • eSoft provides this discussion of the IPAD architecture and how it compares to other ways of approaching the task of making an Internet connectivity appliance. Comparison is made to other approaches with the advantages and disadvantages explained and compared.

Internet (IP) Routing Protocols White Paper

  • According to this ACC/Ericsson white paper when RIP and OSPF are viewed as competing protocols, OSPF seems to be the winner. OSPF does have its own shortcomings, however. The most notable is the fact that OSPF requires a great deal of processing power to keep the link state information up to date. But in today's routers, fast CPUs and ample memory are prevalent. The beauty of the protocol is that it is robust and keeps network traffic to a minimum, unlike RIP which is constantly broadcasting tables, thus burdening the network with router-to-router traffic.

Inverse Multiplexing White Paper

  • Ascend explores how inverse multiplexers provide something entirely impossible just a few years ago - the ability to dial up multi-megabit per second digital connections - without requiring significant changes to the network itself. It's this ability to use currently available network offerings in a new and highly useful manner that makes inverse multiplexing such a valuable addition to the corporate networking toolbox.

IP 101

  • Compatible Systems authored this white paper that examines IP Addresses, Subnet Masks, Broadcast Addresses, Static Routes and Routing Protocols.

IP Address Management White Paper

  • This paper discusses ACC/Ericsson solutions designed not only to solve IP addressing problems, but also to provide an easy to use solution which can be deployed in locations lacking technical expertise.

IP And IPX Network Frame Relay Access

  • Motorola's low cost frame relay access for IP and IPX networks paper.

IP Filtering

  • Compatible Systems tackles the subject of IP Filtering and how every site is different, you can get burned by packet filtering if you don't understand all the details and implications of its use in your particular environment.

IP Over ATM

  • Jun Xu of Ohio State University authored this great paper that examines why the success of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) lies largely in its ability to transport legacy data traffic, mostly IP, over its network infrastructure.

IP Telephony White Paper

  • ACT Network's white paper explores how the telecommunications industry is changing at an astounding rate and how IP Telephony offers the potential to provide a richer service experience through the use of internet-based server technology and the combination of video and data services with basic voice services.

IPv6 White Paper

  • Bay Networks presents an excellent paper on the next generation IP protocol known as IPng or IPv6 and how it will ultimately provide a much-needed evolutionary rearchitecting of today's overstressed internetworks.

IPX 101

  • Compatible Systems details how all routable protocols work by dividing the physical devices on a network into logical groups. A logical group will typically consist of all of the machines on a physical network segment (such as an Ethernet segment).

ISDN - Just In Time Networking

  • Jtec Pty Limited in Australia discusses ISDN bandwidth management and applications (central site hub, channel aggregation and third-party disaster recovery installation).

ISDN Technical References

  • Andy Kauffman of AHK Associates provides one of the best resources for provisioning ISDN Services. This excellent web page covers everything from ISDN ordering codes, cause codes, SPID formats, reference points all the way to including wiring and using existing cable.

ISDN - The Future Proof Technology

ISDN White Paper

  • 3Com's superb white paper presents an overview of narrowband ISDN technology from a data networking perspective and reports on its current deployment status worldwide. It compares ISDN with other existing and developing WAN services, covering point-to-point and switched, private, and public services. Next it looks at how ISDN addresses the growing need for remote LAN-to-LAN, remote node-to-LAN, and Internet and on-line information access connectivity. Finally, the paper provides information on ISDN planning and cost of ownership.

Layer 3 Switching White Papers

  • 3Com comes through with a great introduction to Layer 3 Switching. The paper analyzes Layer 3 switching from both a functional and an operational perspective, helping the reader make an informed assessment of its merits as an enabling technology.

Management Implications of Public Frame Relay Services

  • Visual Networks reviews the operational support issues that arise when LAN/WANs are migrated from leased lines to Frame Relay. It then defines the ideal operational support model which forms the management foundation for these networks.

Managing Wide Area Networks White Paper (PDF)

  • With outstanding visual diagrams this superb 22 page (PDF) white paper by Sync Research will provide you examples of how frame relay networks and point-to-point digital networks can be managed effectively via SNMP and other methods and how performance and trends can be monitored and managed over time.

Measuring Frame Relay Service Level Agreements SLAs (PDF)

Motorola SNA Capabilities

  • The SNA capabilities of Motorola network access products are examined by this white paper.

Multicast Routing

  • Cisco explores how with a multicast design, applications can send one copy of each packet and address it to the group of computers that want to receive it. This technique addresses packets to a group of receivers rather than to a single receiver, and it depends on the network to forward the packets to only the networks that need to receive them.

Multilink White Paper

  • ACC/Ericsson describes how Multilink provides two important benefits: increased bandwidth and load sharing along a single logical path, and redundant connectivity in case one of the individual physical links fails. The result is a more robust and fail-safe internetwork.

Multiplexing Technologies White Paper

  • Jtec Pty Limited in Australia has the best "multiplexing" white paper we have seen with excellent visual diagrams.

Network Encryption

  • Racal Datacryptors explores how for a growing number of companies today, ensuring the privacy of information sent over an enterprise-wide network is a major preoccupation. As the demand for virtual private networking and remote networking grows, so will the requirement for network encryption.

New Access Network White Paper (PDF)

  • With superb visual diagrams this 21 page PairGain white paper in (PDF) format explains how the New Access Network is designed to provide telecommunications service providers with the ability to deliver next-generation data, voice, and video applications over their existing copper infrastructure. Additionally, this white paper describes the trends that are driving the new access network.

On Track on the WAN (PDF)

  • Geoff Bradford, Managing Consultant, Predictive Systems, describes how when it comes to scalability over a WAN, client/server applications are often not an improvement over older mainframe and minicomputer-based applications. For success, the key is for the application to use the network as economically as possible.

Optimizing Router Software for Reliable Internet Growth

  • Juniper Networks describes in this white paper their software vision for helping Internet backbone providers scale their networks.

PairGain HDSL White Paper (PDF)

  • Enhancing the performance and application of copper cable with HDSL is the subject of this 5 page PairGain white paper in (PDF) format.

PeopleSoft Over Frame Relay White Paper

  • Cisco's purpose for this white paper is to provide practical knowledge with respect to deployment of PeopleSoft across Frame Relay networks.

Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) White Paper

  • Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) is a complete specification for transmitting datagrams between data communications equipment from different manufacturers over dial-up and dedicated serial point-to-point links. ACC/Ericsson describes how customers will be able to pick the best product to satisfy their requirements at each location in their network, independent of manufacturers.

Policy-Based Application Optimized Networking

  • In this paper Bay Networks explains that policy management is an emerging solution set that enables business-critical applications to perform at specific levels for specific users. It implements a set of rules or policies that further an organization's business objectives by dictating how users, applications, and organizations can access and use network resources.

Practical Guide to Frame Relay

  • Niels Jonker has written a simple guide to explain frame relay. Niels has gone out of his way to take the complexity out of explaining frame relay.

Primer on Networking White Paper

  • Bay Networks explores the subject of networking from the very basics up to and including routers and switches.

Protocol Stacks in Relationship to the OSI Model

RADIUS Overview White Paper

  • RADIUS provides an effective way to deploy and manage remote dial-up communications in a secure manner. It provides a centralized depository for user authentication information and provides mechanisms to track user traffic and connection times. ACC/Ericsson describes how its open design enables multiple vendors to provide communications solutions while centralizing the management issues. RADIUS can also be used to provide connection time configuration parameters which can be used to limit access, provide quality of service options, and other value added features.

RADIUS Security Technology

  • Bay Networks explores how the RADIUS security protocol is a key component of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).

Remote Access Security White Paper

  • Ascend prepared this document for MIS, telecommunications and security managers with network security responsibilities. We found it worthwhile.

Remote Access Solutions White Paper

  • Jtec Pty Limited in Australia discusses dial gateways, remote access devices, network services, client software, central site software and security devices for remote access.

Remote Access White Paper

RMON and RMON2 FAQ

  • Bay Networks provides detailed answers to the most common questions about the RMON and RMON2 standards. Recommended for those interested in proactive network management.

Router Accelerators

  • Jonathan Bransky and L. David Passmore discuss how Router Accelerators are worthy of consideration for those enterprise networks that require a no-hassle performance boost for their traditional software-based routers. They can enhance routing performance by an order of magnitude without increasing the administrative burden of network managers. For Router Accelerator Products see FlowWise Networks.

Routing Switch Impementation

  • Bay Networks explains what a routing switch is, how it works and then using it in a network design with examples of implementation.

Routing Switch Technology White Paper

  • Bay Networks asks whether the performance and cost differential between Layer 2 switching and standard routing could be completely eliminated? And if so, then IT managers could deploy these solutions flexibly and in combination where they make sense in the network topology. Bay Networks assures us that all this is possible today through a new class of networking device - the routing switch.

SAP Networks White Paper

  • Bay Networks shows you how to build SAP-Capable Networks. SAP is the world's leading provider of business application software.

Self-Healing ATM Networks White Paper (PDF)

  • Service providers and enterprise network planners considering a migration to an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network expect a number of benefits to be realized out of their capital investments. This 10 page General Datacomm (GDC) White Paper (PDF) describes why self-healing ATM Networks are not trivial to the success of this migration.

SNA Over Frame Relay - Bay Networks White Paper

  • Implementing Frame Relay across the enterprise brings with it a key challenge -- integrating traditional SNA traffic with multiprotocol traffic across the WAN. This Bay Networks White Paper shows how Frame Relay not only provides the high availability that users have come to depend on, but also is more cost-effective, more flexible, and less complex to manage. Consequently, Frame Relay has emerged as the primary WAN alternative to private leased lines.

SNA Over Frame Relay White Paper (PDF)

  • Once more outstanding visual diagrams compliment this superb 24 page (PDF) white paper by Sync Research. Learn how Frame Relay is the heir apparent to SDLC and BCS multidrop lines as IBM networks migrate to packet based networks. Frame Relay replaces expensive, unwieldy leased-line networks and provides the advantages of network services.

SNA Over Frame Relay (PDF) - Frame Relay Forum

  • 28 page white paper prepared for the Frame Relay Forum by David Sinicrope, Ralph Case and Marcia Peters of the IBM Corporation. This is a very strong technical white paper with good supporting visual diagrams, highly recommended.

SNA White Paper

  • Motorola describes how companies should be allowed to make their branch site to central site connectivity choices based on what's best for their business rather than what's best for the vendor's. That means giving a manager as many options as possible -- something Motorola claims they do better than any other vendor.

Switched 56 Kbps Services Management Briefing (PDF)

  • General Datacomm (GDC) authored this superb 22 page (PDF) management briefing that provides the "inside" scoop on availability, accessibility as well as the economics of Switched 56 Kbps Services.

Switched Token Ring

  • Bay Networks believes that with ATM gaining more momentum every day, Token Ring users have the luxury of selecting a Token Ring switching solution that not only solves their performance problems, but also gives them a great bet on the ultimate switching architecture of the future.

T1/E1 ATM

  • Lucent Technologies demonstrates the potential of ATM as an access technology for lower speed circuits. When compared with TDM and frame relay, ATM provides the best alternative for connecting the expanding base of T1/E1 customers to carrier services.

T1 Inverse Multiplexing

  • Larscom discusses how corporations have adopted load sharing techniques to interconnect networks. Gaining popularity now, however, is inverse multiplexing, which provides a single high-speed channel using multiple T1s. One impetus for the popularity of inverse multiplexing is the way it prepares users for the adoption of ATM. Inverse multiplexing shares with ATM many important similarities which impact the design of network architectures. This allows users of inverse multiplexing today to enjoy some of the benefits of ATM, and ensures an easy migration to ATM services when they are available.

Telecommuting Network Planning Guide (PDF)

  • Ascend Communications has written this 44 page (PDF) document to assist corporate planners, executives and information managers on the benefits of telecommuting. This is the best white paper we have seen on the subject of telecommuting.

Token Ring Evaluation Guide

  • Bay Networks says that when you start examining the performance characteristics of local area network (LAN) switches, it pays to understand what it is you're trying to measure, how to measure it, and, most importantly, what the relevance of the metric is to the networking problem you're trying to solve.

Token Ring Switching Techniques

  • This Bay Networks paper will help you understand the relative merits and applications of cut-through or store-and-forward switching, enabling you to deploy each technology to achieve its best results.

Videoconferencing

  • In this white paper, Bay Networks is declaring that ATM delivers business-quality videoconferencing over infrastructure that is fully compatible with today's corporate networks. ATM offers significantly lower costs and greater flexibility than ISDN, and provides significantly higher quality levels than Ethernet. ATM's unique suitability to the transport of video, as well as voice and data, is making it the infrastructure of choice for corporate backbones.

Videoconferencing on Frame Relay Networks

Videoconferencing Over Frame Relay Case Study (PDF)

  • 8 page (PDF) document describes how Science Dynamics and Cisco teamed up to provide this unique H.320 Videoconferencing Over Frame Relay solution for the World Bank.

Video Over Frame Relay (PDF)

  • ACT Networks brings you this 10 page White Paper in (PDF) that provides not only excellent content but superb visual diagrams as well.

Video Over Frame Relay White Paper

  • Science Dynamic's David Young authored this great white paper discussing the current status of combining video with existing voice, fax, data and LAN communications using frame relay over public and private lines. Highly colorful visual diagrams compliment this paper.

Virtual LAN Architecture White Paper

  • With the evolution of switching, a wide variety of virtual LAN implementations have emerged. These implementations have their advantages and drawbacks. This paper looks at the reasons for virtual LANs, the requirements that they need to support and the options available with Xylan switches.

Virtual Private Networks White Paper

  • In this white paper, Bay Networks discusses how secure communications, industry-standard network management, and rich network administration services are important features for network managers implementing Dial VPN services.

Virtual WAN Switching

  • Frame Relay Technologies, Inc. examines how migration to a single, cost-effective network infrastructure supporting an expanding variety of applications should be an essential component of networking strategies.

VoFR vs. VoIP

  • Memotec devoted considerable time to develop this 26 page white paper that is quite thorough in comparing VoFR vs. VoIP.

Voice and Fax Sharing LAN/WAN Connections

  • MICOM examines how technology developments have converged to make it possible to combine or integrate voice, data, and fax communications with remote LAN traffic over inexpensive wide area connections. As a result of these technologies, integrated remote internetworking is now affordable for all companies, small, mid-sized and large. With these technologies, connections that used to carry only routed LAN traffic can now carry all remote-site communications: voice and fax, LAN, mainframe, minicomputer and PC data.

Voice/Data Integration in E-Business

  • IBM Networking provides this "classic" that describes the business transformation requirements of enterprises and Service Providers moving to e-business and specifically describes the role of voice-data integration in this transformation.

Voice/Fax Over IP White Paper (PDF)

  • MICOM provides a stimulating 52 page (PDF) document describing Voice/Fax over IP that is also complimented by highly informative visual diagrams.

Voice Networking Over ATM

  • Voice networking over asynchronous transfer mode (ATM), which was first introduced by Bay Networks, will revolutionize the industry with fundamental changes to the cost/value equations that determine network investment decisions. The key to this transformation is the use of variable bit rate (VBR) real-time service and switched virtual circuits (SVC).

Voice Over ATM

  • This FORE Systems white paper discusses complex applications that require a network capable of delivering disparate mediums without negatively impacting performance-Hyperdata Networking. Hyperdata networking expands the capabilities of LANs from simple data transfer to the delivery of complex applications.

Voice Over Frame Relay

  • Motorola's "oldie but goodie" VoFR white paper is still a good read.

Voice over Frame Relay Implementation Agreement - FRF.11 (PDF)

  • Courtesy of the Frame Relay Forum's Technical Resources, this 51 page (PDF) document is outstanding with content and visual diagrams that thoroughly exlpain FRF.11, the Voice over Frame Relay Implementation Agreement.

Voice Over Frame Relay, IP and ATM

  • RAD discusses the voice-enabling mechanisms employed by Frame Relay, IP and ATM and solutions for interoperability.

Voice Over Frame Relay - RAD

  • RAD gets into specifics on how Frame Relay was designed as a protocol for the transport of data across ISDN and non-ISDN based networks. Consequently, all of the protocol mechanisms and quality of service has been defined with respect to data traffic, and not voice traffic. This is due to the high and variable delay associated with these networks.

    However, delay is dependent on both the switching rate of the network nodes and the speed of the interconnecting trunks. If both can be optimized using both frame relay and higher speed trunks, it is conceivable that delay sensitive traffic could be passed across a frame relay network. However, passing this type of traffic across a statistically based network is one thing - delivering an acceptable user service is another.

Voice Over Frame Relay White Paper

  • ACT Networks discusses how in many organizations, there are two distinct networks: a data network and voice network. This white paper will describe the use of fast-packet Frame Relay networks to combine voice and data networks into one integrated network..

Voice Technologies for IP and Frame Relay Networks

  • Motorola's excellent and most recent white paper covers recent technology advances for VoFR and VoIP.

Voice, Video and Data White Paper

  • Cisco has put together this superb paper on AVVID (Architecture for Voice, Video and Integrated Data). Great visual diagrams make this an excellent paper.

VPN Breakthrough: Virtual IP Networking

  • This paper provides an overview of the virtual Internet Protocol (IP) networking architecture built with a Bay Networks Passport switch used in the foundation of an enterprise network.

VPN Cost Saving Analysis For The Enterprise (PDF)

  • Ascend Communications has written this 35 page (PDF) document on VPN Cost Saving Analysis for the Enterprise and how VPNs can cut the operating and management costs of wide area networking in half, while offering substantially greater flexibility and worldwide reach.

VPN Reference Page

  • Internet Week assembled their useful VPN articles onto one web page for easy reference. So far, readers have their choice of 7 interesting VPN articles.

Windows NT Remote Access

  • Bay Networks discusses how enterprises are moving from NetWare and UNIX to Windows NT. And as enterprises migrate to NT, they are being driven to implement an NT-compatible remote access solution. This paper helps you plan that solution, highly recommended.

xDSL Comparison Guide

  • ADC Kentrox takes the "bull by the horn" and addresses differences in DSL technologies.

xDSL Technology

  • Randy Day has written a quick and dirty synopsis for the consumer who is thinking of using xDSL technology for networking access and needs some practical information. We highly recommend Randy's page for its focus on the needs of consumers desiring xDSL access.

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