Business Data Communications

Combining treatment of fundamentals and leading-edge technology, the book offers more technical coverage than other business data communication texts.

Features of this new edition

• An entire new chapter on doing business on the Internet.
• A completely updated chapter on network security that emphasizes management strategies.
• An extensive discussion of network management.
• TCP/IP (vs. OSI) as the focus of protocol coverage.
• Coverage of Fast Ethernet (100BASE-T), Gigabit Ethernet, ATM LANs, and Fibre Channel.
• Chapter on LANs and WANs.
• Numerous pedagogical aids, including a web course page (http://www.shore.net/~ws/BDC3e.html), on-line transparency masters, on-line study guide, solutions manual and an Internet mailing list.

Table of contents

Chapter 1: Introduction

Part 1: REQUIREMENTS

Chapter 2: Business Information

Chapter 3: Distributed Data Processing

Part 2: FUNDAMENTALS

Chapter 4: Data Transmission and Transmission Media

Chapter 5: Data Communication Fundamentals

Chapter 6: Transmission Efficiency

Part 3: NETWORKING

Chapter 7: Traditional Wide-Area Networks

Chapter 8: High-Speed Wide-Area Networks

Chapter 9: Local Area Networks

Chapter 10: High-Speed and Wireless LANs

Chapter 11: Wireless Networks

Part 4: APPLICATIONS

Chapter 12: TCP/IP and Other Protocol Architectures

Chapter 13: Distributed Applications

Chapter 14: Client/Server and Intranet Computing

Part 5: MANAGEMENT ISSUES

Chapter 15: Doing Business on the Internet

Chapter 16: Network Management

Chapter 17: Network Security

Appendix A: Standards and Standards-Setting Organizations

Glossary

References

Index