Provides a thorough discussion of networking technology in six parts, covering the fundamentals; enterprise network services; the transport network; data link subnetworks; network interconnection; and appendices including standards organizations, the OSI reference model, the IEEE/ISO/ANSI LAN architecture, and a glossary. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
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This book looks at enterprise networking from the perspective of network users and application developers, describing the application services the network provides and the technologies employed to implement end-to-end communication between users. KEY TOPICS: Covers networking technologies such as TCP/IP, Novell Netware, NetBIOS, AppleTalk, SNA, and DECnet. MARKET: For information systems managers, communications managers, technical staff members who support networking hardware and software, and users of network services.
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