Books : Data and Computer Communications
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by: William Stallings
Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9780024154545
ISBN: 0024154547
Label: Macmillan USA
Manufacturer: Macmillan USA
Number Of Pages: 704
Publication Date: 1990-11
Publisher: Macmillan USA
Sales Rank: 2950005
Studio: Macmillan USA
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Product Description:
This book covers the full range of data and computer communications, giving an up-to-date tutorial on leading edge network technologies. It includes expanded coverage of WANs, including ATM, frame relay, packet switching, and circuit switching. Also offered is expanded coverage of LANs, including Fast Ethernet, and expanded coverage of TCP/IP.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Writing Accuracy
Just one issue: The text would repeatedly refer to various devices, procedures, menus, etc. inaccurately. It made using IT Guru frustrating at times because I wasn't always sure if I was selecting or doing the right thing. Perhaps they should have had someone actually use it before they published. "?"
Rating:  - well presented explanations
[A review of the 8th EDITION, that was published in late 2006.]
Stallings takes the student reader through an extensive introduction to current computer networking. Focusing naturally on TCP/IP, as the Internet is the largest computer network in the world. He shows how TCP/IP can be related to the theoretical 7 layer OSI model. The 5 layers of TCP/IP have proved to be well adequate to this date.
En route, he provides very simple analogies to the protocol stack, as this ... Read More
Rating: - Interesting stuff.
most interesting part of this book was adsl, cable, vdsl because our family are using FastAccess DSL(adsl with 1.5 megabyte patch)from Bellsouth(which is merged with At&T).
Rating: - A Good Resource
This book does not cover as many topics as I would have liked, but it is very current and appears to be accurate. Stallings can be a bit dry.
Rating: - A+ in the NW and Data Comm hard to find books.
The subject of Networking and Data communication is hard to teach and the good books are also hard to find.
For anyone interested in the details of Networking and its mathematical and logical scales, there is no other book that represents this wide subject in an easy to read, understand and comprehend the subject. Although this is only my second required textbook in the Networking and Data communication, one undergrad and now grad school, it is my ...probably 10th book to read/use as a reference ... Read More
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