Local Area Networks (McGraw-Hill Forouzan Networking Series) - Hardcover

Forouzan, Behrouz A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0072336056 ISBN 13: 9780072336054

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education, 2002

Synopsis

Local Area Networks (LANs) have become an integral part of communication in today's world. LAN applications are used in businesses, educational facilities, hospitals, stock exchanges, and warehouses to name a few. Forouzan's Local Area Networks offers reader-friendly, comprehensive coverage of LAN technologies, which prepares students the reader to use these technologies in real-world applications.

Local Area Networks is ideal for students both in the classroom and later as a reference. Forouzan motivates topics by practical applications, and his liberal use of figures makes difficult technical topics easier to grasp by providing an intuitive, visual representation of concepts. Extensive practice sets are also provided at the end of each chapter, which reinforce what the student has learned.

Forouzan's Local Area Networks is also up-to-date. It presents in-depth material on such current topics as Gigabit Ethernet, ATM LAN, Wireless LAN, VPN, and VLAN.

About this title

About the Author

Behrouz A. Forouzan is a Professor at DeAnza College where he is involved in the development of Computer Information System courses. In addition he provides system development consulting with several companies. In addition to C and C++ books, Forouzan is the author of several other successful books, including Computer Networks: A Top-Down Approach, TCP/IP Protocol Suite, and Local Area Networks.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0072336056
• ISBN 13: 9780072336054
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 640