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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 1994 21:18:33 MDT
From: Rob Slade <rslade@sfu.ca>
Subject: Book Review: "Basics Book of Frame Relay" by Motorola
BKBSFRRL.RVW 931125
Addison-Wesley Publishing Co.
Kelly Ford, Promotion/Publicity Coordinator
P.O. Box 520 26 Prince Andrew Place
Don Mills, Ontario M3C 2T8
416-447-5101 fax: 416-443-0948
or
Tiffany Moore, Publicity tiffanym@aw.com
John Wait, Editor, Corporate and Professional Publishing johnw@aw.com
1 Jacob Way
Reading, MA 01867-9984
800-822-6339 617-944-3700
Fax: (617) 944-7273
5851 Guion Road
Indianapolis, IN 46254
800-447-2226
"The Basics Book of Frame Relay", 0-201-56377-0
The preface states that this is an easy-to-read introduction to frame
relay for busy communications professionals who presumably want to
know something about the new technology besides the fact that it is
generating a lot of interest. Fine. I fit the bill perfectly. I'm a
communications (specifically *data* communications) professional. I'm
busy. Let's get to the frame relay.
Not so fast. First, we have an introduction that wants to tell me I
should be interested in frame relay. Look, I got the book, didn't I?
Then, we have a chapter one which wants to tell me what a "protocol"
is, and about packet switching. Pack it in, guys: I'm a professional,
remember? Then, we get another *two* chapters of sales pitches!
Buried in the verbiage, there is a *bit* of information about frame relay:
- it has higher throughput than X.25 (how? less error correction and
recovery);
- you can connect anything to it (how? probably the same way you do now--
with difficulty);
- you can connect voice to it (maybe. or maybe that's *cell* relay, or ATM);
- it has faster response time (how? don't know);
- it has higher throughput, again (how? by letting you use more bandwidth,
if it is available. Huh.)
On the other hand, it takes less than an hour to read.
copyright Robert M. Slade, 1993 BKBSFRRL.RVW 931125
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