Book details of 'PC Networking Handbook'

Title	PC Networking Handbook
Author(s)	Ed Tittel
ISBN	0126913986
Language	English
Publisher	Morgan Kaufmann

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
A handbook generally provides practical information. It's the kind of stuff that isn't rocket science, but is the reference material you can't be bothered keeping in your head all the time. Common procedures that you don't use every day, specifications that you might need quickly: the kind of stuff you want to flip to, remind yourself about, and put back on the shelf until next time. About the only material of that kind in this book is the (admittedly excellent) list of vendor contacts. What we have here instead is an overview of concepts and terms that might be related to a network. Cabling, medium access methods, network protocols, advanced networking technologies, networking equipment, computer peripherals, and network management concepts are all touched on. Touching is about all you can do in the forty-four very brief chapters, but it does cover the terminology. The book is a little thick for a glossary, but it can provide a fairly broad introduction to the topic of networking in general. This could create a foundation for further study directed towards the planning of a network where works such as Ramteke (see reviews), McNamara , and Tanenbaum (see reviews) give too much technical detail. However, I can't help thinking that "How Local Area Networks Work" (see reviews) covers the same ground in only one third the pages. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1996
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