Business Data Networks and Telecommunications

by Panko, Raymond R.

• ISBN13: 9780130359148
• ISBN10: 0130359149
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: PRENTICE HALL

Summary

This book has 11 core chapters that form a complete introduction to networking. Mini chapters follow 4 of the chapters (ch. 1, 3, and 8, and 9)&with&case studies or hands-on exercises reinforcing material in the previous core chapter. In addition, &three advanced modules at the end of the book (Module A, B, and C)&contain material teachers may wish to cover selectively for emphasis

Table of Contents

Core Network Concepts	1	(38)
Case Study: Panko. Info	33	(6)
Standards	39	(28)
Physical Layer Propagation	67	(36)
Hands On: Cutting and Connectorizing UTP	95	(8)
A Small Ethernet PC Network	103	(34)
Hands On: Configuring a Microsoft Windows 98 PC as a Client	127	(10)
Other LAN Technologies	137	(36)
Case Study: XTR Consulting's PC Network	169	(4)
Telephony: Internal and External	173	(34)
Case Study: Rewiring a College Building	203	(4)
Wide Area Networks (WANs)	207	(36)
Case Study: First Bank of Paradise's Wide Area Networks	239	(4)
TCP/IP Internetworking	243	(32)
Security	275	(44)
Not Hands On: How Attackers Hack Servers	313	(6)
Network Management and Systems Administration	319	(34)
Hands On: Using a Protocol Analyzer	345	(8)
Network Applications	353	(114)
Setting UP a Peer-to-Peer PC Network	381	(86)
More on TCP and IP	393	(26)
More on Propagation	419	(12)
More on Local Area Networks	431	(16)
More on Telephone Service	447	(8)
More on Large-Scale Networks	455	(12)
More on Security	467