How Networks Work, 7/e (Paperback)

Frank J. Derfler Jr., Les Freed

  • 出版商: QUE
  • 出版日期: 2004-08-29
  • 售價: $1,640
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$1,558
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 240
  • 裝訂: Paperback
  • ISBN: 0789732327
  • ISBN-13: 9780789732323
  • 已絕版

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Ever wonder how your office computer network works? Or how the Ethernet card inside your computer connects you to that network or to the Internet? How Networks Work will give you a thorough, detailed explanation of the inner-workings of network systems without getting you caught up in network jargon. Learn the basic principles of networking and how those principles work inside pieces of network equipment. Complete with illustrations to show how things work together, this latest edition also includes information on the newest technologies, including VoIP, wireless networks, broadband and more.

 

Table of Contents:

Introduction.

I. Communicating by Wire.

 1. How Telegraphs Work.
 2. How Telephones Work.

II. Mixing Computers and Telephones.

 3. How Early Networks Worked.
 4. How Early Communications Terminals Worked.
 5. Alphabet Soup: Morse, Baudot, ASCII, and EBCDIC.
 6. How Modems Work.
 7. How Terminals Work.
 8. How Serial Communications Works.
 9. The PC As a Terminal.
10. How Broadband Works.
11. How Computer Telephony Integration Works.

III. Local Area Networks (LANs).

12. How Local Area Networks Work.
13. How Networking Operating Systems Work.
14. How Network Interface Cards Work.
15. How Network Cables Works.
16. How IP Works.
17. How Server-Based LANs Work.
18. How Peer-to-Peer Networks Work.
19. How Enterprise Network Systems Work.
20. How LAN-to-LAN Connections Work.

IV. Links Between LANs.

21. How Bridges, Routers, and Switches Work.
22. How Metropolitan Area Networks Work.
23. How Circuit-Switched Digital Networks Work.
24. How Packet-Switched Networks Work.

V. The Internet.

25. How Internet Connections Work.
26. Network Security.

VI. Networks for e-Business.

27. e-Business Infrastructure.

VII. Intertainment.

28. Convergence and Telematics.
Index.