Free Booklet Helps Build, Explain LAN

"An Educator's Guide To Networking" is a new booklet from Asante that succinctly supplies some of the technical basis needed to understand networking decisions. Topologies, cabling, components, services and media-access methods are covered in an introduction. Various scenarios for building a new academic network, as well as for expanding an existing one, comprise parts two and three. Diagrams are included. Product information is found in an appendix. Asante provides schools and others with a variety of LAN, WAN and networking products. Asante Technologies, Inc., San Jose, CA, (800) 662-9686, www.asante.com.

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