September 2000
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
7h 59m
English
The final group of version 1.0 profiles is what we term the networking profiles. This group consists of the LAN access, dial-up networking and fax profiles. As noted in the preceding chapters, each profile includes the aspect of a serial port, and the dial-up networking and fax profiles include an element of telephony. But to our way of thinking the primary focus of these profiles is on multihop (long-haul) data communications and networking. Clearly both dial-up networking and LAN access are intended to facilitate data networking, and the fax profile seems to have more in common with data networking (especially of the dial-up kind) than it does with voice telephony. All of the profiles in this group include ...