Title:
Data communications and computer networks : a business user's approach
Author:
White, Curt M.
ISBN:
9781305116634
Personal Author:
Edition:
8th ed.
Publication Information:
Australia ; Brazil : CENGAGE Learning, ©2016.
Physical Description:
xxiii, 427 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
1. Introduction to Computer Networks and Data Communications -- 2. Fundamentals of Data and Signals -- 3. Conducted and Wireless Media -- 4. Making Connections -- 5. Making Connections Efficient: Multiplexing and Compression -- 6. Errors, Error Detection, and Error Control. 7 -- Local Area Networks: Part 1 -- 8. Local Area Networks: Part 2 -- 9. Introduction to Metropolitan Area Networks and Wide Area Networks -- 10. The Internet -- 11. Voice and Data Delivery Networks -- 12. Network Security -- 13. Network Design and Management
Abstract:
Providing essential information for business managers, computer programmers, system designers, as well as home computer users, this book provides a thorough introduction that includes coverage of the language of computer networks as well as the effects of data communications on business and society.