Data communications and computer networks: a business user's approach /
Curt M. White
- 3rd ed.
- Australia: Thomson, c2004.
- xiii, 520p.: ill.; 28cm.
Contents: Introduction to computer networks and data communications -- Fundamentals of data and signals -- Conducted and wireless media -- Making connections -- Multiplexing: sharing a medium -- Errors, error detection, and error control -- Local area networks: the basics -- Local area networks: internetworking -- Local area networks: software and support systems -- Introduction to metropolitan area networks and wide area networks -- The Internet -- Telecommunications systems -- Network security -- Network design and management.