Written for designers, machinists, and manufacturing engineers. Bridges the gap between academic theory and industrial practice and delivery. Softcover.

The official self-study test preparation guide for the Cisco CCNP and CCDP(r) Switching exam
Coverage of the CCNP/CCDP Switching exam topics enables you to identify and fill your knowledge gaps before the exam date. You'll learn how to:
* Design, build, and maintain high-speed, multilayer switched networks running Fast and Gigabit Ethernet
* Define common workgroups and configure and manage Virtual LANs with VTP
* Utilize redundant switch links to increase campus network reliability

This unique new resource offers you a detailed road map for tracking developments and trends in both international telecommunications and Internet-mediated communications. Useful to novices and higher-level professionals alike, the book explores the impact of the Internet on international telecommunications and gives you a clear definition of technological and marketplace convergence. By providing answers and perspective for both telecommunications and information technology professionals, the book bridges the gap between these two disciplines, making it easier to respond to and profit from change occasioned by the Internet.

In the quantum world, a particle can behave like a wave and accordingly seems to be in two places at the same time. This of course is contradictory to our daily experiences with classical particles. How then should this be understood? What happens in the transitional area between the classical world and quantum mechanics? The present book answers exciting questions like these in a way that is easy to follow and to understand and is shows that the link between these two worlds will have concrete and applied effects on our daily life in the near future. It will, for example, improve and change the conventional methods of information processing.