BICSI announces release of the fifth edition of their design manual

BICSI, Tampa, Fla., will publish the fifth edition of its LAN design manual, Network Design Reference Manual (NDRM), on September 30, 2003. This latest release of the NDRM provides comprehensive, standards-based descriptions, methods, and practices for the design of local area networks. The NDRM is the basis for BICSI’s Registered Communications Distribution Designer/Local Area Network Specialist (RCDD/LAN Specialist) designation. It contains three appendices featuring reference material that covers numbering systems and conversions, IP addressing and subnetting, and network technologies other than Ethernet.