High-Performance Networks, Personal Communications and Mobile Computing

Dimitris N. Chorafas served on the faculty of the Catholic University of America and as Visiting Professor at Washington State University, George Washington University, University of Vermont, University of Florida, and Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, as well as the University of Alberta, Technical University of Karlsruhe, Ecole d'Etudes Industrielles de l'Université de Genève, Ecole Polytechnic Fédérale de Lausanne, Polish Academy of Sciences and Russian Academy of Sciences. More than 8,000 banking, industrial and government executives participated in his seminars in the United States, England, Germany, Italy, other European countries, Asia and Latin America. Chorafas is the author of 160 books, translated into several languages world-wide.

• Foreword; A.Rudge - The New Generation of High Performance Networks - Communications Technology and the Impact of Tariffs - Value-Added Networks in the Mid to Late 1990s - Internet: A Global Data and Voice Solution? - Hardware Challenges with Network Design - Legacy and Competitive Systems in Communications - Software Challenges with Network Design - Realtime Distributed Communications and Their Security - Personal Communications Solutions - Low Earth Orbit Satellites and Radio Networks - Learning from Past Failures and Complex Solutions - Projects a Successful Organization should undertake as Top Priority