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Title

Practical data communications / Roger L. Freeman.

Author

Freeman, Roger L.

Publication

New York : Wiley, [1995], ©1995.

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Description

xxiv, 632 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

• This book serves the practitioner. Its wide discussion of data network enhancements and design is built upon a thorough introduction of generic and specific data networks, focusing at length on transmission limitations, protocols and how they work, and questions of standards and related topics. The book covers local area networks (LANs) based on IEEE and ANSI standards, and wide area networks (WANs) built around TCP/IP, SNA, and OSI related protocols.
• It also covers VSAT (very small aperture terminal) satellite networks for data connectivity, and frame relay and SMDS for the interconnection of LANs over long distances.
• The reader will share the benefits of the author's extensive experience, detailing actual implementation methods for enterprise networks, considering particular corporate and government requirements, describing wiring concepts and specific models, and providing comparisons between different systems in terms of performance and complexity.
• Throughout, data communication is incorporated into the bigger picture of telecommunications, including the public switched digital network (PSDN), questions of high-capacity transmission media such as fiber optics, wire pair, and microwave and satellite communications. There is emphasis on the trend toward the integration of data, voice, and image into a single telecommunication system - popularly termed multimedia communications.

Series Statement

Wiley series in telecommunications and signal processing

Uniform Title

Wiley series in telecommunications and signal processing.

Subject

• Data transmission systems

Note

• "A Wiley-Interscience publication."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Basic Data Transmission -- Ch. 3. The Transmission of Data Over the Analog Voice Channel -- Ch. 4. The Telecommunications Network as a Vehicle for Data Transport -- Ch. 5. Data Networks -- Ch. 6. Data Communications in the Office Environment -- Ch. 7. Wide Area Networks -- Ch. 8. Integrated Services Digital Networks -- Ch. 9. Speeding Up the Network: Fast Packets -- Ch. 10. Broadband Data Transport Techniques -- Ch. 11. Broadband Multimedia Communications -- Ch. 12. The Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Broadband ISDN -- Ch. 13. Network Management -- Appendix A Recommended Maximum Separation Between DTE and DCE.

ISBN

0471310212 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

94048318

OCLC

ocm31754489

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries