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After traveling around the world 3 times in 6 months and visiting 56 cities in 21 countries, Carl Malamud chronicles the results of his voyage of discovery in Exploring the Internet: A Technical Travelogue. In an easy-to-understand narrative style, he provides you with technically sophisticated descriptions of everything from new networking research to efforts to build national and international infrastructures to the many fine lunches and dinners he enjoyed. This book is a technical travelogue that looks at people, laboratories, and institutions that illustrate the incredible scope and diversity of the Internet.

Here are just a few of the places he visited:


 * In Hong Kong, Malamud explored the Royal Hong Kong Jockey Club where a massive network handles millions of bets each race day.
 * In Amsterdam, he witnessed the birth of EBONE, a long-awaited pan-European research backbone, and visited EUnet, an organization on the front lines of the push into places like Tunisia, Algeria, and Bulgaria.
 * In Cleveland, Malamud visited with Tom Grundner, a network evangelist who puts community networks together and spreads the faith in places like Peoria.

"Malamud is one Crazy Gaijin! Exploring the Internet will be a big hit in Japan."
 * Professor Jun Murai, Director WIDE Network, Japan

"Exploring the Internet is a real surprise! Malamud has figured out how to do research and have fun too!"
 * Glenn Kowack, CEO EUnet, The Netherlands

STACKS, also by Carl Malamud, presents a technically sophisticated overview of interoperability in today's computer networks. Bringing key technical trends into perspective, STACKS combines descriptions with case studies on subjects ranging from HIPPI to ATM, SONET to Frame Relay, and SMDS to Broadband ISDN. The book shows how technology is used and includes real-world studies of gigabit testbeds, terabit networks, and digital libraries.

"SLACKS succeeds marvelously ... a great book."
 * Dr. Marshall T. Rose

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