Many people will have used a network, be it the World Wide Web, email, or another of the utilities that are starting to worm their way into our everyday lives. Some aspects of networks will be familiar to many, such as clicking in a Web browser, or deleting spam from our inbox. There is a lot of (mostly) hidden technology that drives this phenomenon we call the Internet, and this book aims to g…
The purpose of the networking guidelines are as follows: to assist students in understanding the benefits of networking to help students place in context their current stage of networking development in their school. to assist students in planning the next stage of network development in their school. to provide standard networking ‘models’ and best practice to studen…
We think one important reason for this success has been that our book continues to offer a fresh and timely approach to computer networking instruction. We’ve made changes in this fifth edition, but we’ve also kept unchanged what we believe (and the instructors and students who have used our book have confirmed) to be the most important aspects of this book: its top-down approach, its focus…