Chao (electrical and computer engineering, Polytechnic U., New York) and Liu (computer science, Tsinghua U., China) provide an accessible guide to tested and proven solutions for the ever-present challenges of providing high-performance switches and routers for today's and tomorrow's Internet traffic. They cover the architecture of the present and future Internet, IP address lookup, packet classification (including geometric algorithms), traffic management (including differentiated service and packet scheduling), basics of packet switching, shared-memory switches, input-buffered switches, Banyan-based switches, knockout-based switches, the abacus switch, crosspoint-buffered switches, CLOS-network switches, multi-plane buffered switches, load-balanced switches, optical packet switches, and the high-speed router chip set. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)