Applied Data Communications: A Business-Oriented Approach [Hardcover]

Product Description This book provides process-oriented thinking models with which students can organize their problem solving approach. These models are reinforced and used throughout the text rather than merely being introduced in a single chapter on network design. Examples of such models include: Top Down Model, Input-Processing-Output Model, Hardware-Software-Media Model, OSI Model, and Client/Server Architecture Model. A real-world, practical approach to the industry is supported by the inclusion of business cases. From the Publisher Uses a practical approach to begin analysis by identifying the business model constraints and objectives, then applying this information to the design of systems. Introduces key thinking models such as the top down and Input Processing Output models used throughout the text as tools for effective data communications and networking analysis and design. Includes numerous business cases, technology reviews and selected articles from professional periodicals. Generously endowed with diagrams illustrating actual implementations and potent applications of networking technology.