Business Data Communications and Networking: A Modular Approach

Business Data Communications and Networking: A Modular Approach, 2/e

Raymond R. Panko, University of Hawaii

Published December, 1998 by Prentice Hall Business Publishing

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Summary

For undergraduate and graduate level courses in Business Data Communications, Introduction to Data Communications, Telecommunications, and Introduction to Networks. Using a unique modular approach, this comprehensive book introduces the key topics and issues essential to networking professionals. Its modular design is presented in two parts, which consists of eight core chapters followed by eight coordinated resource modules. The website has additional supplemental material. This modular design allows teachers to focus on topics they consider important without having to assemble outside readings.

Features

NEW— Provides updated and enhanced coverage of TCP/IP, the Internet, Intranets, and Extranets. Coverage:

Chapters 1 and 2 have more TCP/IP than most other textbooks have in total.
Chapter 7 looks at intranet communication services and Internet standards for electronic mail and similar services.
Chapter 8 covers extranets for Internet electronic commerce.
Module A covers TCP/IP in depth.
Module G looks at common Internet applications.

NEW— Introduces a variety of security issues across several chapters.

Chapter 5 introduces secure virtual private networks using the Internet.
Chapter 6 discusses the core of Internet-related security concerns, including public key encryption, single key (symmetric) encryption, message digest authentication, and digital certificate authentication, as well as firewalls.
Chapter 8 returns to security in the context of Internet electronic commerce, discussing the SSL and SET security approaches.
Module F offers more detail on the specifics of security approaches, including details of SSL and SET, new Internet IPsec standards, Kerberos, and other security issues.

NEW— Provides greater coverage of physical-level propagation in the core chapters, especially in Chapter 3.

Chapter 3 examines alternatives for faster home and small office (SOHO) access, including V.90 modems, cable modems, and ADSL. Module B covers additional propagation topics, such as detailed information on modulation, multiplexing, and carrier trunk lines.

NEW— Covers the tagging approaches that are being used for quality of service improvements, as well as their broader application in quality of service, security and other management concerns.
NEW— Provides greater coverage of essential topics related to the differences and value of the latest generation of routers and switches.
NEW— Provides greatly increased coverage of server technology.

Chapter 1 introduces basic types of servers.
Chapter 4 presents more on the servers found in PC networks.
Chapter 6 looks at the superserver technology used on larger enterprise networks.
Chapter 8 discusses the steps needed to create a website using company-owned servers networks.
Module C presents additional information on enterprise servers. FEATURES

Constructed around a unique modular design consisting of eight core chapters covering the central concepts of networking and eight advanced modules that provide additional information on selected topics. The website provides even more material. The goal is to provide an integrated set of material to let individual professors teach the course their way.
Introduces the Internet and its TCP/IP standards in Chapter 1 and provides additional material in Module A and continues throughout the core chapters. Module A covers advanced TCP/IP concepts.
Provides a detailed PowerPoint presentation for each core chapter that includes full chapter coverage. Provided from the website, these presentations include relevant materials from the advanced modules and information from the book's website updates.
Features access to a dedicated website that is personally maintained by the author and updated monthly. (www.prenhall.com/panko).

Provides updates and new developments in the form of pieces written by the author and selected links to on-line articles from major trade magazines.
Offers a wealth of information for students, including interactive Internet exercises, in which students learn to search on-line catalogs for products and send their professor the results by e-mail.
Features objectives, updates, and downloads pages for each chapter. Downloads Pages allows you or your students to download the PowerPoint presentations and I/M as well as end-of-chapter and end-of-module review questions.

Covers real-world technologies and issues that network professionals actually use, including:

TCP/IP.
Ethernet switching.
VLANs.
Layer 3 switching.
Security (SSL, SET, digital certificates, IPsec, and more).
Directory servers.
Intranets.
Extranets.
High-speed Internet access.
Network management.
Groupware.
Videoconferencing.
Desktop conferencing.
Third-generation cellular telephony.
IP telephony.
Internet electronic commerce.

Demonstrates the comfortable working relationship between TCP/IP and OSI by using the dominant hybrid TCP/IP-OSI framework throughout the book.
Includes a number of important pedagogical features:

Begins with experiences the student has already had—Web access and PC networking. This increases motivation and makes core concepts real.
Presents the difficult concept of layering in a series of contexts. First, all the layers are presented in the context of Web access, then in the context of PC networking on an LAN, and finally in the context of large networks.

CORE CHAPTERS.

ADVANCED MODULES.