Describes the best way to deploy TCP/IP, OSI, LAN internetworks in IBM environments, how to migrate from SNA to APPN, the vast spectrum of SNA and non-SNA communications offerings currently available from IBM to facilitate multiprotocol networking. Explains the most recent and emerging IBM and industry standard LAN, WAN and MAN protocols; demonstrates how to implement them on current IBM; SAA and AIX platforms, placing them in the context of IBM's major computing strategies.
