Further Reading Reference

A good text on general computer networking is: Computer Networks, 3rd ed., by Steinmetz and Nahrstedt , Prentice Hall, 1996.

A good reference on switching technology and other aspect of networking is: Data and Computer Communications, 4th ed., W. Stallings, Macmillan, 1994.

The Internet Multimedia Backbone (the MBONE) is introduced nicely in the following articles

• ``MBone Provides Audio and Video Across the Internet'', M.R. Macedonia and D.P. Brutzman, IEEE Computer, Vol.27 No. 4 (April 1994), pp. 30-36.
• ``MBONE: the multicast backbone'', Hans Eriksson, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 37, No. 8 (Aug. 1994), pp 54-60.