Essential Guide to Networking, The (Essential Guide Series) - Softcover

Jim, Keogh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130305480 ISBN 13: 9780130305480

Verlag: Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2000

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The Essential Guide to Networking is the complete briefing on networking and the Internet for every non-technical professional! In one easy, easily understood book, James Keogh explains today's hottest networking technologies and the fast-changing networking industry! It's the perfect networking guide for every business decision-maker, salesperson, marketer, PR professional, and technical writer -- and for everyone interested in how networks are transforming the world. Start by reviewing the technical fundamentals of networking, and how networks have evolved to where they are today. Next, review the elements and types of networks: components, connections, wide area links, intranets, extranets, and the Internet. Understand how network professionals attempt to maximize network reliability and security, and their key resources for troubleshooting network problems. Finally, in Part IV, Keogh offers a high-level briefing on the networking industry, its major players, and the powerful trends that are already at work shaping tomorrow's networks.

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• The plain-English guide to understanding how networks work—and how they're built
• Intranets, extranets, the Internet, and other IP networks
• Network reliability, security, and troubleshooting
• Next-generation wireless technologies—Bluetooth, WAP, and JINI
• Networking industry overview
• The future of networking

Your complete, no-nonsense guide to networking: the fundamentals, without the hype!

The Essential Guide to Networking is the complete briefing on networking and the Internet for every non-technical professional! In one easy-to-understand book, James Keogh explains all of today's hottest networking technologies—and helps you make sense of the fast-changing networking industry. The Essential Guide to Networking is a breath of fresh air: an intelligent, thorough, friendly, and up-to-date guide to networking for non-engineers! You'll learn all this, and more:

• The technical fundamentals and evolution of networks
• LANs and WANs: connections, media, and building blocks
• Intranets, extranets, the Internet, and other IP-based networks
• DSL, cable modems, and other high-speed Internet access alternatives
• Understanding Internet security and privacy
• Up-to-the-minute wireless coverage: Bluetooth, WAP, Jini, and more
• Options for maximizing network reliability and security
• Key resources for troubleshooting network problems
• The networking industry and its key players
• Powerful trends shaping tomorrow's networks

If you need to understand the dynamic, ever-changing world of networking and how it's revolutionizing today's high tech economy, this is your complete briefing.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Financial Times Prentice Hall
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0130305480
• ISBN 13: 9780130305480
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 432