This book provides a comprehensive presentation of the techniques used to build high speed, high performance communication networks capable of providing telephone, interactive video data, and multimedia services. It explains how the converging telephone, data and video networking technologies are combined into high performance networks, and how to plan, manage and control these networks.
Taught this as recently as 2008 in grad class on network theory. Stimulating exercises, very motivating for the best students, daunting for the average. Rewarded students that had contextual knowledge of the field.