Sams Teach Yourself Networking in 24 Hours

Hayden, Matt Matt Hayden,

ISBN 10: 0877785244 / ISBN 13: 9780877785248

Published by Sams Publishing -, 2001

About this Item

Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Seller Inventory # 6545-9780877785248

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sams Teach Yourself Networking in 24 Hours
• Publisher: Sams Publishing -
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0877785244
• ISBN 13: 9780877785248
• Binding: paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Sams Teach Yourself Networking in 24 Hours is a tutorial that uses 24 one-hour lessons to teach the user the features and advantages of local area networks (LANs).

Review

You can't go too far in technology these days without at least a casual understanding of data communications over local- and wide-area networks (LANs and WANs). Sams Teach Yourself Networking in 24 Hours will clue you up on the seven-layer Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) networking abstraction and other key facts and concepts related to communication among computers. This is the sort of book you sit down and read, perhaps doodling some sketches to the side, rather than use as a guide for experiments performed on a live computer. As such, it's a good starting point as you prepare for a general networking test, such as Microsoft's Networking Essentials exam.

Some readers may find author Matt Hayden's approach a bit of a scattershot. He introduces, for example, some of the details of Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and IP sub-netting before he explains network topologies. He also touches on technologies such as hard drive storage, which are not at all central to networking. But despite the padding and the sometimes-strange organisational decisions, Hayden has done a fine job of communicating the critical facts and concepts about networking in an implementation-independent way. Though he writes about the relative merits of networks built with NetWare, Windows, Unix, and Linux, he doesn't muddy the water with click-this, choose-that instructions.

Topics covered: The essentials of computer networking, explained for people who have never studied the subject before. Design and implementation issues are treated generically, and the author makes high-level comparisons among NetWare, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Unix, and Linux. --David Wall