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Telecom & Datacom Systems, Protocols & Standards - Computer Networks, LANs & WANs, General & Miscellaneous Networking & Telecommunications
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Data Communications, Computer Networks, and Open Systems

by Halsall, Fred
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Overview

Highlights of the book include detailed coverage of:

  • The essential theory associated with digital transmission
  • Digital leased circuits including PDH, SONET and SDH
  • Protocol basics including specification and implementation methods
  • Legacy and wireless LANs
  • High-speed LANs including 100BaseT and 100 VG AnyLAN
  • Transparent and source routing bridges
  • Packet switching and frame relay networks and their protocols
  • Internetworking architectures, protocols and routing algorithms
  • Multiservice broadband networks including ATM LANs and MANs
  • The TCP/IP and OSI application protocols including X.400 and X.500
  • Data encryption and network security algorithms
  • Network management architectures including SNMP and CMIP


Fully revised and updated, the fourth edition includes new chapters on broadband multi-service networks, a revamped chapter with extended and updated coverage of FDDI, and a new section on Fast Ethernet, covering 100BaseT, 100Base X, wireless LANs, and several additional candidate technologies.

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New edition of a text/reference, updated to reflect rapid developments in the field. The organization closely follows the structure of the ISO reference model for open systems interconnection. The first part concentrates on fundamental issues; the second on computer networks; and the third on open systems. Requires little background knowledge beyond an understanding of basic logic circuits and computer architectures and a working knowledge of a high-level structured programming language. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Book Details

Published
September 20, 1995
Publisher
Wokingham, England ; Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1996.
Pages
907
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780201422931

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