Business Data Communications and Networking - Hardcover

FitzGerald, Jerry; Dennis, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 047139100X ISBN 13: 9780471391005

Publisher: Wiley, 2001

Synopsis

Balances the technical and managerial aspects of data communications. The goal is to strike a balance between understanding how networks operate and how to successfully apply them.
* "Real Life" examples used throughout the text. The use of networks has become more complex over the past few years. The text contains dozens of examples in Management Focus Boxes that shows how real organizations are using telecommunications and networking.
* Coverage of all the important topics in data communications is included in the text. The critical technology and/or network management issues are covered.
* Network Protocols coverage--TCP/IP.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Acclaimed for its accuracy, cutting-edge orientation and clarity of presentation, this best-selling text in its new edition is better still. It covers everything MIS professionals need to know about data communications and networks--from hardware and network design to security and LANs. Covers new technologies such as ATM, FDDI, CDDI, fast ethernet, V.34 modems, PPP, wavelength division multiplexing and more. Provides coverage of current applications of technologies such as internet, WWW, client/server, cellular and relates these applications to business situations. A separate chapter contains a hands-on introduction to Novell Netware.

From the Back Cover:

GET CONNECTED TO THE LATEST TECHNOLOGIES IN DATA COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING!

With each new edition, Jerry FitzGerald and Alan Dennis' BUSINESS DATA COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING has helped students stay on the cutting edge of data communications and networking technologies. Updated with the latest advances in the field, this Seventh Edition features new sections on wireless technologies, VPNs, and security technologies, as well as a new chapter on the Internet covering the structure of the Internet, POPs, gigaPOPs, and Internet 2. This edition also features minicases that challenges students to apply the concepts covered in each chapter. 

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 047139100X
• ISBN 13: 9780471391005
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480