I want to call everyone's attention to Quality of Service (Jan 1998) Wiley Computer Books, $35, an important new book by Paul Ferguson and Geoff Huston. Last week in London Paul gave me a copy and conscented to an interview. I suspect that this will be a very important book that will sell very very well. Why? Because EVERYONE who is doing any kind of network engineering in an ISP no matter how small will profit from using this book. I find the title somewhat misleading in that QoS usually means the more esoteric concept of guaranteeing packet priority or network bandwidth. In our interview Paul pointed out that this book is much broader in scope and is intended to be a guide to how to properly engineer a network so as to achieve maximum possible performance from one's network connection. For ordering data on the book see: http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/catalog/24358-2.htm Quality of Service: Delivering QoS on the Internet and in Corporate Networks Paul Ferguson ; Geoff Huston Table of Contents What is Quality of Service? Implementing Policy in Networks. QoS and Queuing Disciplines, Traffic Shaping, and Admission Control. QoS and TCP/IP: Finding the Common Denominator. QoS and Frame Relay. QoS and ATM. The Integrated Services Architecture. QoS and Dial Access. QoS and Future Possibilities. QoS: Final Thoughts and Observations. Afterward. Glossary. Bibliography. The following URL contains an amazingly detailed hot linked QoS bibligraphy ranging from Internet drafts to more general QoS articles. http://www.wiley.com/compbooks/ferguson ************************************************************************ The COOK Report on Internet New Special Report: Building 431 Greenway Ave, Ewing, NJ 08618 USA Internet Infrastructure ($395) (609) 882-2572 (phone & fax) www.cookreport.com/building.html cook@cookreport.com Index to 6 years of COOK Report, glossary, executive summaries, special reports found at www.cookreport.com ************************************************************************