This is a book about the various types of devices that are currently available from different
manufacturers/vendors for the data communications users. As stated by the author in his …

Over® fteen years ago I introduced the® rst edition of this book with the statementdata
communications networking devices are the building blocks upon which networks are …

The proliferation of data communications in recent years has stimulated the production of a
variety of devices designed to lower cost and improve performance of data communication …

This book has evolved primarily from lecture notes for data communications courses taught
at Georgia State University since 1969. Additional material was derived from seminar …

The preface recommends this book as “a primer that can easily be read from front to back”
and as “a reference book that can be used to answer questions long after it has been placed …

In this introductory book on data communications, the authors have made a reasonably
successful effort to provide a balanced perspective on the field, combining the point of view …

This text attempts to present a “practical understanding” of how networking and
telecommunications technologies work and how they are employed within today's …

Data communications is increasingly becoming an important area of management
information systems. Numerous textbooks have appeared in recent years to meet the …

This book is intended to introduce networking to “students who plan to work as
programmers, analysts or end-users in a network environment.” It is not for network …

The worldwide trend in computers in the 1970's has been the growing integration of
computing and communications. As a result, communications systems are becoming …