LOCAL AREA NETWORKS：A BUSINESS-ORIENTED APPROACH 2ND EDITION WITH CD

Local Area Networks, Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to Local Area Networks including theory, concepts, and installation. This edition includes significant updating due to the constantly changing LAN technologies. Courses on LAN's and the technology of client/server are the primary audience for this text.

James E. Goldman is Principle Author and currently Professor and Assistant Department Head for Telecommunications and Networking Technology at Purdue University. An award-winning teacher, he is the only faculty member in the history of the School of Technology to win all three school-level teaching awards. He is author of bestselling textbooks, including Applied Data Communications: A Business-Oriented Approach, 2/e (Wiley, 1998) and Client/Server Information Systems: A Business-Oriented Approach (Wiley, 1999). He maintains an active consulting practice and is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. Phillip T. Rawles is Co-author and Assistant Professor of Telecommunications and Networking Technology at Purdue University. His primary areas of interest are network systems administration, enterprise network management, and network simulation and optimization. He has been involved in developing or significantly redeveloping courses at Purdue, mainly in local area networking, systems administration, and enterprise network management.

LOCAL AREA NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE.

Local Area Networks: A Business Perspective.

Local Area Network Architectures.

Local Area Network Hardware.

Network Layer Communications Protocols.

LOCAL AREA NETWORK SOFTWARE.

Local Area Network Operating Systems.

Novell Netware.

Windows NT (2000).

Unix.

Middleware.

Client/Server Application Development and Integration.

Local Area Network Applications Software.

LOCAL AREA NETWORK CONNECTIVITY.

Network Design Using TCP/IP.

Local Area Network Interworking.

Remote Access and Wireless Networking.

LOCAL AREA NETWORK ADMINISTRATION.

Local Area Network Management.

Local Area Network Security.

Glossary.

Index.