Fundamentals of communications and networking
Networks have long been regarded as methods to connect resources. While this is still the case, today's networks are required to support an increasing array of real-time communication methods. Video chat, real-time messaging, and always-connected resources put demands on networks that were prev...
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Burlington, Massachusetts :
Jones & Bartlett Learning ,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Today's personal and business communication requirements
- 2. Solving today's business communication challenges
- 3. Circuit-switched , packet-switched, and IP-based communications
- 4. The evolution of ethernet
- 5. TCP/IP and networking
- 6. Wireless LAN standards
- 7. Layer 2 networking
- 8. Layer 2 networking VLANs
- 9. Voice over internet protocol (VoIP)
- 10. Unified communications and session initiation protocol
- 11. Layer 3 networking
- 12. Fault management and the network operations center
- 13. Configuration management and accounting
- 14. Performance management
- 15. Security management