Focusing on both fundamental concepts and practical applications, this data communications book is accessible to the novice, while challenging to the technical professional. Beyda provides a practical understanding of all relevant terminology, concepts, hardware, software, protocols, architectures, and other information to make the reader literate in data communications.
Incorporates Internet and Client/Server Computing. Discusses in-depth security coverage, including network threats, defense mechanisms and encryption technology. Includes telecommunications and voice over IP and explains changes and latest trends.
For those interested in learning more about data communications.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This book covers all the major topics in data communications but does so in a very simplistic manner that barely scratches the surface of any of the topics covered. Of course the breadth of the book is so wide that it would not be possible to cover even a fraction of the topics in any detail. The back of the book says that it is a suitable book for those with a technical background and that the 'shaded areas' go into more technical detail. I found the shaded areas to be just as elementary as the rest of the book, and in many cases doesn't tell the full story. This is a good book if you only want an introduction to telecomm topics, or want a dictionary of telecomm acronyms. It is fairly well written and has some very simplistic analogies for those who might need plain english illustrations of telecomm concepts. The reason I'm giving it a low rating is because I feel the publisher/author is trying to sell this to a technical audience, which I strongly feel it is not suitable for. But if you know nothing about volts, bytes, bits, baud, hertz, etc... then this would be a good place to start.
