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Middleware Networks: Concept, Design and Deployment of Internet Infrastructure |  | Authors: Michah Lerner, George Vanecek, Nino Vidovic, Dado Vrsalovic
Publisher: Springer
Category: Book
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 3016802
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 375
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 7.3 x 1.1
ISBN: 0792378407
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.678
EAN: 9780792378402
ASIN: 0792378407
Publication Date: April 30, 2000
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Middleware Networks: Concept, Design and Deployment of Internet Infrastructure describes a framework for developing IP Service Platforms and emerging managed IP networks with a reference architecture from the AT&T Labs GeoPlex project. The main goal is to present basic principles that both the telecommunications industry and the Internet community can see as providing benefits for service-related network issues. As this is an emerging technology, the solutions presented are timely and significant. Middleware Networks: Concept, Design and Deployment of Internet Infrastructure illustrates the principles of middleware networks, including Application Program Interfaces (APIs), reference architecture, and a model implementation. Part I begins with fundamentals of transport, and quickly transitions to modern transport and technology. Part II elucidates essential requirements and unifying design principles for the Internet. These fundamental principles establish the basis for consistent behavior in view of the explosive growth underway in large-scale heterogeneous networks. Part III demonstrates and explains the resulting architecture and implementation. Particular emphasis is placed upon the control of resources and behavior. Reference is made to open APIs and sample deployments. Middleware Networks: Concept, Design and Deployment of Internet Infrastructure is intended for a technical audience consisting of students, researchers, network professionals, software developers, system architects and technically-oriented managers involved in the definition and deployment of modern Internet platforms or services. Although the book assumes a basic technical competency, as it does not provide remedial essentials, any practitioner will find this useful, particularly those requiring an overview of the newest software architectures in the field.
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 Innovative large software April 16, 2001
I read the published book and before that a draft Professor Lerner gave to his CS students. The book is clear and polished far beyond the draft. I guess Professor listened to his students' comments. Cool. It really got me much more into the ideas and the nuts-and-bolts. The technology seems pretty aggressive, like a totally new kind of a telephone except doing everything in one system, and for lots of companies too. Like Napster for doing anything. Does someone have a CD of the whole system? That would have been a nice thing to add into the book.
Response to March 7 comment March 30, 2001
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wow! Dispassionate analysis based on partial reading of a draft. How low can one sink? PARTS of a DRAFT COPY? Are students supposed inform on their professors based on partial and preliminary discussion in an academic forum? That was a popular method of communist repression (may they be cursed)! Did you bother to tell the author privately before blasting an anonymous and reactionary opinion?
Great overview of difficult topics July 10, 2000
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is a unique resuource that covers a broad cross section of technologies that, together, will shape the internet of the future. Though not geared twords general IT staff, more advanced technical folks should find this book most valuable.
excellent and insightful July 31, 2000
1 out of 8 found this review helpful
As a recent graduate of MIT I find this book most informative and extremely clear in its definition of networks and middleworking network systems. For anyone who needs to understand how the dotcom world works. Michal Lerner is a brilliant scholar and ingenious network engineer, about whom I have heard in scholarly circles. I believe he is a teacher at Columbia University and I was told he is responsible for 97% of the technical information in this book.
 Review of Middleware Networks June 13, 2000
7 out of 10 found this review helpful
I'd like to be kind, but--it's awful. Not cohesively written and very limited in its readability. A potentially useful topic treated with a heavy techno-hand...
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