Handbook of Local Area Networks, 1998 Edition:About the Editor Click Here! Search the site:   ITLibrary ITKnowledge EXPERT SEARCH Programming Languages Databases Security Web Services Network Services Middleware Components Operating Systems User Interfaces Groupware & Collaboration Content Management Productivity Applications Hardware Fun & Games EarthWeb sites Crossnodes Datamation Developer.com DICE EarthWeb.com EarthWeb Direct ERP Hub Gamelan GoCertify.com HTMLGoodies Intranet Journal IT Knowledge IT Library JavaGoodies JARS JavaScripts.com open source IT RoadCoders Y2K Info Table of Contents About the Editor John P. Slone is a Consulting Applications Engineer at Lockheed Martin Corporation in Orlando FL and a consulting editor for Auerbach Publications. He has worked in the information processing industry since 1978, published numerous technical articles, participated in various domestic and international standards committees, and received a number of corporate and industry awards. He holds a BS in mathematics from Georgetown College in Georgetown KY and has pursued graduate studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder CO. He is currently a master’s degree candidate at the Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne FL. Contributors Thomas Atkins Regional Systems Engineer, Extreme Networks Al Berg Assistant Director of Technology, NETLAN, Inc., New York NY Alex Bidwell President, CyberQuest Inc., New York NY Suzanne Brennan Director, Marketing Management, ConferTech International, Westminster CO Edward Bursk Vice-President of Marketing, FastComm Communications, Sterling VA Smoot Carl-Mitchell Managing Partner, Texas Internet Consulting, West Austin TX Charles E. Carney Senior Consultant, Ernst & Young, Vienna VA Hyun mee Choi PhD Student, Department of Computer Science, North Dakota State University, Fargo ND George Conant Vice-President, Technology and Co-Founder, Xyplex, Littleton MA Lawrence K. Cooper Project Manager, Government of Canada, Ontario, Canada Laura E. DeNardise Senior Research Analyst, The Meta Group, Reston VA Bill Erdman Director, Market Development, XcelleNet, Inc., Atlanta GA Matthew Feldman Chief Technology Officer, Intelect Visual Communications, New York NY David Fencl Marketing Director, Oneac Corp., Libertyville IL Ed Frymoyer President, emf Associates, Mountain View CA James E. Gaskin Consultant, Dallas TX James T. Geier Senior Systems Consultant, TASC, Inc., Dayton OH Lynn Haber Computer and Communications Technology Writer, Boston MA Thomas M. Hadley Networking Consultant, IBM Corporation, Raleigh NC Gilbert Held Director, 4-Degree Consulting, Macon GA Frank Henderson Director, Network Strategies and Design Practice Group, The NetPlex Group, Somerville NJ Frank Horwitz Founder and CEO, SecureNet Technologies, Inc., Lynnwood WA Doug Kaye Director of Marketing, Magellan Networks, Northern Telecom, Richardson TX Gary C. Kessler Senior Member Technical Staff, Director of Information Technology, Hill Associates, Colchester VT Byung G. Kim Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts, Lowell MA David Koehler Director of Network Technology, The NetPlex Group, Somerville NJ Micki Krause Manager, Information Security, PacifiCare Health Systems, Cypress CA Robin D. Langdon Senior Product Manager, Broadband Technology, Larscom Inc., Santa Clara CA Jeff Leventhal Founder and President, Remote Lojix Bertil C. Lindberg Consultant, New York NY Tim McShane High-Speed Workgroups Program Manager, Hewlett-Packard Co., Roseville CA Colin K. Mick Consultant, Palo Alto CA C. Kenneth Miller Founder and Chairman/Chief Technology Officer, StarBurst Communications, Concord MA Carol A. Monaghan Network Administrator, Hill Associates, Colchester VT Nathan Muller Consultant, The Oxford Group, Huntsville AL Jan Murphy Technical Communications Manager, Persoft Inc., Madison WI Asghar I. Noor Independent Consultant, Natick MA Christine Perey Principal Researcher and Consultant, PEREY Communications & Consulting, Placerville CA Richard Rauscher Senior Systems/Network Analyst, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, University of South Florida, Tampa FL Yakov Rekhter Cisco Systems, Inc. Lawrence D. Rogers Vice-President and General Manager, Software Systems Division, Emerald Systems Corp., San Diego CA Ronald Rosen Lead Advisory Technology Consultant, ENTEX Information Services, Inc., New York NY Frederick W. Scholl President, Monarch Information Networks, Inc., New York NY John P. Slone Consulting Applications Engineer, Lockheed Martin Corporation, Orlando FL William Stallings President, Comp-Comm Consulting, Brewster MA Allan Stevens President, A.D. Stevens and Associates, Almonte, Ontario, Canada Martin Taylor Vice-President, Network Architecture, Madge Networks, United Kingdom Dick Thunen Marketing Representative, Sync Research, Inc., Irvine CA Bhavani Thuraisingham Lead Engineer, Center for Integrated Intelligent Systems, The MITRE Corp., Bedford MA Michael Van Patten Vice-President of Marketing, Microdyne, Alexandria VA Ronald Vetter Associate Professor, Mathematical Science Department, University of North Carolina, Wilmington NC Robin L. 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