Book details of 'A Professional's Guide To Data Communication In a TCP/IP World'

Title	A Professional's Guide To Data Communication In a TCP/IP World
Author(s)	E. Bryan Carne
ISBN	1580539092
Language	English
Published	September 2004
Publisher	Artech House Publishers

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
The preface states that this book is intended to present a picture of the TCP/IP stack, and a guide to the protocols of the suite. The typical reader would be familiar with telecommunications terms and concepts, although not with TCP/IP itself. Instead, what we seem to have is a grab bag of random communications protocols and information, with occasional mentions of, but hardly a concentration on, TCP/IP. Chapter one provides a quick trip through the major protocols and structures for the Internet. Basic data communications, the OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) model, and TCP/IP stack based thereon, are reviewed in chapter two. Ethernet, token ring, and FDDI (Fibre Distributed Data Interface) protocols for local area networks (LANs) are discussed in chapter three. Chapter four lists various WAN (Wide Area Network) protocols, mostly older ones, and irrelevant to TCP/IP. Chapter five covers interconnection protocols. The protection of networks, in chapter six, provides some very odd misinformation, such as describing firewalls (of every type) as proxies, defining tunnels as requiring encryption, and using "firewall" as a term to describe multifunction firewall appliances. Transmission media and factors are examined in chapter seven. Chapter eight, entitled "Convergence of Voice and Data," talks about using phone circuits for "last mile" data connection to the home or small office, and voice over IP. The book is very difficult to describe. The lack of structure in the material is neither helpful to the novice nor quick to reference for the professional. The topics are disjointed, and seemingly collected at random. It is hard to say for whom the work would or might be useful. copyright Robert M. Slade, 2004
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This hands-on resource provides you with a comprehensive picture of the Internet protocol stack and the role of TCP/IP in data communication. It serves as a detailed guide to the protocols, networks, codes, signals, and equipment that make it possible to communicate using TCP/IP. You find complete bit-level descriptions of the functions performed by the headers and frames of the TCP/IP suite, making it easy for you to analyze individual data packets. The book offers you a through understanding of advanced LAN and WAN technologies, and gives you an integrated view of bridging, routing and tagging operations.