Local Area High Speed Networks

Acknowledgments

I wish to thank Lisa Thibault, the development editor, who read the full text and made lots of good suggestions. She was my constant email companion, providing encouragement and helping me over bumps in the road. Laura Loveall supervised production and remained good-natured and unfazed when chapters were reordered or figures were replaced. Karen Wachs, the acquisitions editor, helped to keep the project on track.

I also wish to express my gratitude to the technical reviewers, A.G. Carrick, Gina Mieszczak, Lennert Buytenhek, and Murali Rajagopal, who contributed generously of their time and their knowledge. I especially wish to thank A.G. Carrick, who was an inexhaustible source of real-world information, and Gina Mieszczak, who ...