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Chapter One Data Communications and Networking
1.2 The data communications and networking evolution
1.5 The International Standards Organization’s Open Systems Interface
1.6 Understanding the ISO/OSI model
Chapter Two Data transmission and the physical layer
2.1 The transmission environment
2.3 Physical Transmission methods
2.4 Communicating digital information on an analog transmission system
2.5 Computer to modem connection. The RS232 interface
2.7 The Ts and Es .. Digital transmission
2.8 High speed local, serial and parallel connections
Chapter Three The data link layer
3.2 Error detection and correction
3.7 Serial link protocols SLIP and PPP
3.8 Point to point tunneling protocol and Virtual Private Networks
3.9 Layer 2 tunneling protocol
Chapter Four Public and private networks based on the data link layer
4.2 Reducing the cost of traditional services
4.3 ISDN, ATM an other technologies
4.9 Fiber optic based service networks
Chapter Five The network and transport layers
5.3 The North American Voice Network
5.4 Circuit switched vendor networks
5.6 Above the network layer, the transport layer
Chapter Six The TCP/IP protocol suite
6.3 Transmission control protocol
6.8 Address resolution protocol
6.9 Bootstrap protocol and dynamic host control program
Chapter Seven Internet Technologies
7.1 The development of the Internet
7.2 The early ARPAnet/Internet services
7.3 Hypertext transport protocol and world wide web
7.7 Additional web services and variations in approach
Chapter Eight Mobile Communications ….the changing face of telecommunications
8.3 Cellular phones and the Internet
8.4 Data to and from a mobile phone
Chapter Nine Upper level services and applications
9.3 Business and he interchange of documents
9.6 Instant messaging, bulletin boards and chat
9.7 Individual upper level services
9.8 Video and audio transfers and conferencing
Chapter Ten Network Management and operations
10.2 Monitoring tools and methods
10.3 Trouble shooting and maintenance
10.5 Secure HTTP and other secure web services
10.6 Private Communications Technology
Chapter Eleven Future trends and expectations
11.2 Computers and information systems
11.3 Communications and networking
