Business Data Communications
ISBN: 9780470483367 | 0470483369
Edition: 1Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley
Pub. Date: 1/1/2011
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Unlike other books in the field, Business Data Communications provides IT specialists with a very focused approach that shows how the concepts are relevant to their work. Unique content is presented on topics ranging from multiplexing, signaling, CRC, and CIDR to supporting technologies, subnetting, and 802.11n and 802.16. Numerous lab exercises are integrated throughout the pages to demonstrate how the material is applied. It also includes a companion Web site that enhances each chapter with relevant, easy-to-read research articles that IT spe... MORE
| Introduction and layering | |
| Professional implications | |
| Business implications of networks | |
| Technology milestones | |
| Packetization | |
| Layering | |
| TCP/ IP model | |
| OSI model | |
| Principles of Internet protocols | |
| Physical layer | |
| Functions of the physical layer | |
| Physical media... MORE | |
| Signals and their properties | |
| Multiplexing | |
| Importance of binary signals | |
| Binary counting | |
| Signal representation of data | |
| Data Link Layer | |
| Ethernet overview | |
| CSMA/ CD | |
| Error detection and correction | |
| Ethernet frame structure | |
| Switches | |
| Network Layer | |
| Functions of network layer | |
| Internet protocol (IP) | |
| IP Header | |
| IP Addresses | |
| Binary numbers | |
| CIDR notation | |
| Transport Layer | |
| Need for TCP | |
| TCP functions | |
| Segmentation | |
| Reliability | |
| Flow-control | |
| Multiplexing | |
| Connection establishment | |
| TCP Header | |
| UDP | |
| Applications | |
| Overview of the application layer | |
| Overview of the Web | |
| Overview of E-mail | |
| Overview of FTP | |
| Overview of SSH | |
| Overview of IM | |
| Support services | |
| DHCP | |
| Network address translation | |
| Address resolution protocol | |
| Domain Name System | |
| Home networking | |
| Subnetting | |
| Routing | |
| Routing | |
| Route aggregation | |
| WAN technologies | |
| Virtual circuits | |
| T carriers | |
| Frame relay | |
| ATM | |
| MPLS | |
| Wireless networks | |
| Business role of wireless LANS (WLANs) | |
| ISM frequency bands | |
| 802.11 - a/b/g/n - Wi-Fi | |
| 802.15 - Bluetooth Personal area networks | |
| 802.16 - WiMax | |
| Telephony and cell phones | |
| Circuit switching | |
| Telephone network operation | |
| Cell phone networks - 1G - 3G | |
| CDMA | |
| Network security | |
| Common security concerns | |
| Definition | |
| Inbound security | |
| Firewalls | |
| DMZs | |
| Authentication and authorization | |
| Patching | |
| Outbound security | |
| Encryption, including TLS, WEP, WPA | |
| Standards and legal issues | |
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