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Business Data Communications
(International Edition)
5th Edition
William Stallings
ISBN: 0131276336
Hardback
May 2004
608 pages
Description
For Business Data Communications, Data Communications, and introductory Networking for Business courses.
The fifth edition of this popular text presents the fundamental concepts of data communications, networking, distributed applications, and network management and security; it relates specifically to the business environment and business management. Includes up-to-date coverage of key issues for the business student—high-speed networks, asychronous transfer mode (ATM) and TCP/IP, and the use of the Internet, intranets, and extranets support business objectives. It is the only book with a top-down Internet first organization. It is the only book with a top-down, Internet first organization.
Contents
1. Introduction.
I. REQUIREMENTS.
2. Business Information.
3. Distributed Data Processing.
Case Study I: MasterCard International.
II. THE INTERNET AND DISTRIBUTED APPLICATIONS.
4. Internet History and Architecture.
5. TCP/IP and OSI.
Case Study II: Florida Department of Management Services.
6. Internet-Based Applications.
7. Client/Server and Intranet Computing.
Case Study III: ING Life.
8. Internet Operations.
III. LOCAL AREA NETWORKS.
9. LAN Architecture and Protocols.
10. Ethernet and Fibre Channel..
Case Study IV: Carlson Companies.
11. Wireless LANs.
Case Study V: St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital.
IV. WIDE AREA NETWORKS.
12. Circuit Switching and Packet Switching.
Case Study VI: Staten Island University Hospital.
13. Frame Relay and ATM.
Case Study VII: Olsten Staffing Services.
Case Study VIII: Guardian Life Insurance.
14. Wireless WANs.
Case Study IX: Choice Hotels International.
V. DATA COMMUNICATIONS.
15. Data Transmissions.
16. Data Communication Fundamentals.
17. Data Link Control and Multiplexing.
Case Study X: Haukeland University Hospital.
VI. MANAGEMENT ISSUES.
18. Doing Business on the Internet.
Case Study XI: The Hacker in All of Us.
19. Network Security.
20. Network Management.
Appendix A: Standards and Standards-Setting Organizations.
Glossary.
References.
Index.
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