Gives computer professionals hands-on skills for using the latest developments in SNA networking, and covers communications software, hardware, and access methods, protocols, SNA domains networks, and operations and network management. This second edition concentrates on the new SNA, IBM's Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking (APPN), the latest versions of VTAM and NCP, and the new IBM controllers for APPN. Includes performance tables. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.