Publisher's Synopsis
Of great importance to the growth of multi-vendor distributed computer applications, OSI and its common models, services and protocols are governed by a complex set of standards. This book addresses the upper layers of the protocols, their applications and supporting concepts as supported by the ISO and CCITT. It aims to give readers a fundamental understanding of the standards without losing them in details.;The book also includes references to specification and debugging, separate descriptions of what each protocol can do and how it does it, and explanations of acronyms.
