Business Data Communications and Networking, 14th Edition presents a classroom-tested approach to the subject, combining foundational concepts, practical exercises, and real-world case studies. The text provides a balanced, well-rounded presentation of data communications while highlighting its importance to nearly every aspect of modern business. This fully-updated new edition helps students understand how networks work and what is required to build and manage scalable, mobile, and secure networks. Clear, student-friendly chapters introduce, explain, and summarize fundamental concepts and applications such as server architecture, network and transport layers, network design processes and tools, wired and wireless networking, and network security and management. An array of pedagogical features teaches students how to select the appropriate technologies necessary to build and manage networks that meet organizational needs, maximize competitive advantage, and protect networks and data from cybersecurity threats. Discussions of real-world management and technical issues, from improving device performance to assessing and controlling costs, provide students with insight into the daily networking operations of actual businesses.
This text is an unbound, binder-ready edition.
New coverage of security-related issues is included in relevant places throughout the book to meet the needs of the IT/IS schools using this book and the growing emphasis on network security.
Annotation As one of the fastest growing technologies in our culture today, data communications and networking presents a unique challenge for instructors.
Chapter Objectives After reading this chapter, you should be able to ♢ Explain the need for a data link control protocol. ♢ Describe the basic operation of a data link control protocol such as the widely used HDLC.
Business Data Communications and Networking, Thirteenth Edition Evaluation Copy
This revised edition with new technologies, new applications, and new examples, offers balanced coverage of the technical and managerial aspects of data communications to help understand how networks operate and how to successfully apply ...
The Eighth Edition also offers up-to-the-minute coverage of near field communications, updated USB interface, lightning interface, and IEEE 802.11 ac and ad wireless standards, firewall updates, router security problems, the Internet of ...
In general, this text has more details in many chapters, specific updates, and updated illustrations.
This book "Communications and Networking" focuses on the issues at the lowest two layers of communications and networking and provides recent research results on some of these issues.
Designed for use in a data communications course for business majors. This book blends a technical presentation of networking concepts with many business applications. Each chapters is mapped out with...