Business Data Communications
ISBN: 9780136067412 | 0136067417
Edition: 6thFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 10/3/2008
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For Business Data Communications, Data Communications, and introductory Networking for Business courses. Business Data Communications, 6/e, covers the fundamentals of data communications, networking, distributed applications, and network management and security. Stallings presents these concepts in a way that relates specifically to the business environment and the concerns of business management and staff, structuring his text around requirements, ingredients, and applications. While making liberal use of real-world case studies and charts and... MORE
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| Outline of This Book | |
| Topic Ordering | |
| Internet and Web Resources | |
| Useful Publications | |
| Introduction | |
| Information and Communication | |
| Data Communications and Networking for Today's Enterprise | |
| Convergence and Unified Communications | |
| The Nature of Business Informat... MORE | |
| Distributed Data Processing | |
| The Internet and Distributed Applications | |
| Networks | |
| The Transmission of Information | |
| Management Issues | |
| Standards | |
| Recommended Web Sites | |
| Key Terms and Review Questions | |
| Prefixes for Numerical Units | |
| Requirements | |
| Business Information | |
| Audio | |
| Data | |
| Image | |
| Video | |
| Performance Measures | |
| Application Note: File Sizes | |
| Summary | |
| Recommended Reading and Web Sites | |
| Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems | |
| Distributed Data Processing | |
| Centralized Versus Distributed Processing | |
| Forms of Distributed Data Processing | |
| Distributed Data | |
| Networking Implications of DDP | |
| Application Note: Distributed Computing Support | |
| Summary | |
| Recommended Reading | |
| Key Terms, Review Questions, and Problems | |
| Case Study I | |
| Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved. |
Dr. William Stallings has authored 17 titles, and counting revised editions, over 41 books on computer security, computer networking, and computer architecture. In over 20 years in the field, he has been a technical contributor, technical manager, and an executive with several high-technology firms. Currently he is an independent consultant whose clients have included computer and networking manufacturers and customers, software development firms, and leading-edge government research institutions. He has received the award for the Best Computer Science textbook of the year from the Text and Academic Authors Association 10 times - most recently in 2008 for his text, Computer Security: Principles and Practice.
Dr. Stallings is a member of the editorial board of Cryptologia, a scholarly journal devoted to all aspects of cryptology. He is a frequent lecturer and author of numerous technical papers. Dr. Stallings created and maintains the Computer Science Student Resource Site, which provides documents and links on subjects of interest to computer science students and professionals. He holds a PhD from M.I.T. in Computer Science and a B.S. from Notre Dame in electrical engineering.
