The Information Age. The Total Area Network. Frame Relay. Switched Multi-Megabit Data Service (SMDS). Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). A Telecommunications View of the Total Area Network. A Computing View of the Total Area Network. Network Management. Survival in the Information Jungle. Appendices. Glossary. Index.
Total area networking (TAN) is the deployment of high-speed data communications to allow currently localized facilities to become part of a more global network. This concept is the essential basis for superconnectivity when the user sees a distributed set of network-based resources as one.