Reference Websites

U.S. government agency for telecommunications regulation.

This is a set of technical resources for network engineers and system administrators; includes whois and traceroute.

This report from the European Commission supported Widebeam project provides an exhaustive guide to electronic communications within and between small to medium businesses.

A serial bus used in distributed real-time control systems (i.e., in cars, industrial automation).

Network cabling basics, with tutorials on Ethernet, Token Ring, Fibre, and installation practices.

Dr. Jain, Professor of Computer and Information Science at Washington University in St. Louis, makes available his collection of papers, reports, presentations, tutorials, and class notes on the latest networking topics such as ATM traffic management, gigabit networking, ATM over satellite, FDDI, and performance analysis.

Global telecom portal and magazine for telecom news.

Includes information on WAN/LAN data and telecommunications protocols.

Industry resource for enterprises, vendors, system integrators, and anyone interested in the growing Unified Communications and Unified Messaging arena.

Abstract Syntax Notation number one is an international standard notation used in describing transmitted data in telecommunications.

A directory of the Internet Engineering Task Force groups in these areas: applications, general, Internet, operations and management, routing, security, transport, and user services.