MIL 3 and Prentice Hall Announce First Complete Networking Simulation Lab Textbook For Students
Package available for fall semester use delivers laboratory manual and OPNET network simulation softwareUpper Saddle River, NJ, March 31, 1998 -- MIL 3, Inc., the company that pioneered the technology of network simulation software, and Prentice Hall, the premier publisher of engineering books and software for the academic market, have partnered to produce a laboratory textbook for networking courses.
The laboratory manual, authored by Professor Irene Katzela of the University of Toronto and entitled Modeling and Simulating Communication Networks: A Hands-On Approach Using OPNET by MIL 3, Inc., marks the first complete network simulation laboratory environment for college-level instruction. The laboratory manual may be used as a companion to telecommunication theory texts. Now educators can easily incorporate full course and lab materials into their curriculums, while providing students with powerful OPNET technology, widely recognized as an industry-standard environment for network modeling and simulation.
"We wanted to provide a finished package for the large number of universities incorporating OPNET simulation as a laboratory component of their networking courses," said John Conlon, MIL 3 Director of Marketing. "This will make it easy for instructors to provide hands-on labs to illuminate the course theory."
"Data networking is a fundamental subject in today's world", said Professor Dmitri Bertsekas of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, co-author of the seminal text Data Networks. "With a laboratory textbook and simulation environment, students can see concrete illustrations of networking concepts, and perform hands-on experiments to gain a new level of intuition."
A CD in a blister-pack accompanying the laboratory manual contains online documentation for OPNET PLANNER and OPNET MODELER. Instructors from qualifying North American universities who wish to make the OPNET laboratory manual part of their curriculum may apply to MIL 3 for academic pricing for OPNET software licenses. The laboratory manual will be available in time for fall semester use in academic institutions in Canada and the U.S. only. To obtain further information, contact Tom Robbins at tom_robbins@prenhall.com.
About MIL 3MIL 3 is a rapidly growing developer of advanced software tools for communications network planning and design. Based in Washington, D.C., MIL 3 has been the world leader since 1986 in providing state-of-the-art products for modeling and simulating communications networks. With its OPNET(tm) family of products, MIL 3 has provided more than 1,000 organizations of all sizes around the world with sophisticated tools to quickly and efficiently design or improve communications networks or components. For more information on MIL 3, access the worldwide web site at http://www.opnet.com.
About Prentice HallPrentice Hall, a division of Simon & Schuster Higher Education Group, is the premier source of engineering and computer science books and software. Simon & Schuster, the publishing operation of Viacom, Inc., is the world's largest educational publisher as well as a leader in consumer, business, professional and reference publishing. With operations in 43 countries, its imprints include Prentice Hall, Silver Burdett Ginn, Allyn and Bacon, Computer Curriculum Corp., Educational Management Group, Simon & Schuster, Pocket Books, Scribner, The Free Press and Macmillan Publishing USA. For more information on Prentice Hall, access the worldwide web site at http:// www.prenhall.com.
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