How Networks Work, 6th Edition

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Features

• NEW - All-new full-color 3D illustrations illuminate every facet of contemporary networking.

  • Makes it easier than ever for students to understand how networks behave and how their elements work together.

• NEW - Thoroughly updated for the latest networking technologies, from wireless PDAs to wireless connections.

  • Helps students rapidly master the networks that are now of greatest importance, as well as emerging networks that will be increasingly important in the coming years.

• Coverage of every significant type of network—Covers LANs, the Internet, wireless networks, telephone networks, and much more.

  • Helps students understand how networks compare.

• In-depth introductions to the fundamentals of networking—Covers signaling, information packaging, and the other basic principles of networking, as well as the history and evolution of networks.

  • Gives students a rock-solid foundation in the concepts and principles that apply to all networks, no matter how simple or complex.

• By two of the world's leading experts in explaining networking to non-professionals—The authors, Les Freed and Frank Derfler, cover networking for PC Magazine, the world's #1 PC publication, and are authors of the classic Get a Grip on Network Cabling, which is still used in college and technical school classes worldwide.

  • Allows students to learn from expert teachers with a remarkable ability to clarify complex concepts and technologies.

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Description

• Copyright 2003
• Dimensions: 8" x 10"
• Pages: 233
• Edition: 6th

• Book
• ISBN-10: 0-7897-2753-6
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7897-2753-4

How Networks Work is a stunning book, illustrated in full color, that takes readers through the inner-workings of network systems with simple explanations that avoid networking jargon.. The book begins by describing the basic principles of signaling and information packaging used in all systems and goes on to show how those principles work inside pieces of network equipment ranging from network interface cards to the Internet. This latest edition includes new technologies not covered in previous editions, including set top boxes, wireless palm, and more!

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Sample Content

Table of Contents

Introduction.

I. Communicating by Wire.

 1. How Telegraphs Work.
 2. How Early Telephones Worked.

II. Mixing Computers and Telephones.

 3. How Early Networks Worked.
 4. How Early Communications Terminals Worked.
 5. How Data Is Encoded.
 6. How a Modem Works.
 7. How a Remote Terminal Work.
 8. How Serial Communication 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 Work .
16. How TCP/IP Works.
17. How Server-Based LANs Work.
18. How Peer-to-Peer Networks Work.
19. How Enterprise Network Systems Work.

IV. Links Between LANs.

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

V. The Internet.

24. How Internet Connections Work.
25. How Network Security Works.

VI. Networks for e-Business.

26. How e-Business Infrastructure Works.

VII. Intertainment.

28. How Convergence Works.
Index.

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