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Business Data Communications and Networking 14th Edition by Jerry FitzGerald, ISBN-13: 978-1119702849

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Business Data Communications and Networking 14th Edition by Jerry FitzGerald, ISBN-13: 978-1119702849

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  • Publisher: ‎ Wiley; 14th edition (December 3, 2020)
  • Language: ‎ English
  • ISBN-10: ‎ 1119702844
  • ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1119702849

Business Data Communications and Networking, 14th Edition presents a classroom-tested approach to the subject, combining foundational concepts, practical exercises, and real-world case studies. The text provides a balanced, well-rounded presentation of data communications while highlighting its importance to nearly every aspect of modern business. This fully-updated new edition helps students understand how networks work and what is required to build and manage scalable, mobile, and secure networks.

Clear, student-friendly chapters introduce, explain, and summarize fundamental concepts and applications such as server architecture, network and transport layers, network design processes and tools, wired and wireless networking, and network security and management. An array of pedagogical features teaches students how to select the appropriate technologies necessary to build and manage networks that meet organizational needs, maximize competitive advantage, and protect networks and data from cybersecurity threats. Discussions of real-world management and technical issues, from improving device performance to assessing and controlling costs, provide students with insight into the daily networking operations of actual businesses.

Table of Contents:

COVER

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT

DEDICATION

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

PREFACE

PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK

WHAT’S NEW IN THIS EDITION

LAB EXERCISES

ONLINE SUPPLEMENTS FOR INSTRUCTORS

E-BOOK

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO DATA COMMUNICATIONS

1.1 INTRODUCTION

1.2 DATA COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

1.3 NETWORK MODELS

1.4 NETWORK STANDARDS

1.5 FUTURE TRENDS

1.6 IMPLICATIONS FOR CYBER SECURITY

SUMMARY

KEY TERMS

QUESTIONS

EXERCISES

MINICASES

TECH UPDATES

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 1A

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 1B

PART TWO: FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS

CHAPTER 2: APPLICATION LAYER

2.1 INTRODUCTION

2.2 APPLICATION ARCHITECTURES

2.3 WORLD WIDE WEB

2.4 ELECTRONIC MAIL

2.5 OTHER APPLICATIONS

2.6 IMPLICATIONS FOR CYBER SECURITY

SUMMARY

KEY TERMS

QUESTIONS

EXERCISES

MINICASES

TECH UPDATES

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 2A

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 2B

CHAPTER 3: PHYSICAL LAYER

3.1 INTRODUCTION

3.2 CIRCUITS

3.3 COMMUNICATION MEDIA

3.4 DIGITAL TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL DATA

3.5 ANALOG TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL DATA

3.6 DIGITAL TRANSMISSION OF ANALOG DATA

3.7 IMPLICATIONS FOR CYBER SECURITY

SUMMARY

KEY TERMS

QUESTIONS

EXERCISES

MINICASES

TECH UPDATES

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 3A

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 3B

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 3C

CHAPTER 4: DATA LINK LAYER

4.1 INTRODUCTION

4.2 MEDIA ACCESS CONTROL

4.3 ERROR CONTROL

4.4 DATA LINK PROTOCOLS

4.5 TRANSMISSION EFFICIENCY

4.6 IMPLICATIONS FOR CYBER SECURITY

SUMMARY

KEY TERMS

QUESTIONS

EXERCISES

MINICASES

TECH UPDATES

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 4A

CHAPTER 5: NETWORK AND TRANSPORT LAYERS

5.1 INTRODUCTION

5.2 TRANSPORT AND NETWORK LAYER PROTOCOLS

5.3 TRANSPORT LAYER FUNCTIONS

5.4 ADDRESSING

5.5 ROUTING

5.6 TCP/IP EXAMPLE

5.7 IMPLICATIONS FOR CYBER SECURITY

SUMMARY

KEY TERMS

QUESTIONS

EXERCISES

MINICASES

TECH UPDATES

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 5A

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 5B

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 5C

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 5D

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 5E

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 5F

PART THREE: NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES

CHAPTER 6: NETWORK DESIGN

6.1 INTRODUCTION

6.2 NEEDS ANALYSIS

6.3 TECHNOLOGY DESIGN

6.4 COST ASSESSMENT

6.5 IMPLICATIONS FOR CYBER SECURITY

SUMMARY

KEY TERMS

QUESTIONS

EXERCISES

MINICASES

TECH UPDATES

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 6A

CHAPTER 7: WIRED AND WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS

7.1 INTRODUCTION

7.2 LAN COMPONENTS

7.3 WIRED ETHERNET

7.4 WIRELESS ETHERNET

7.5 THE BEST PRACTICE LAN DESIGN

7.6 IMPROVING LAN PERFORMANCE

7.7 IMPLICATIONS FOR CYBER SECURITY

SUMMARY

KEY TERMS

QUESTIONS

EXERCISES

MINICASES

TECH UPDATES

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 7A

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 7B

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 7C

CHAPTER 8: BACKBONE NETWORKS

8.1 INTRODUCTION

8.2 SWITCHED BACKBONES

8.3 ROUTED BACKBONES

8.4 VIRTUAL LANS

8.5 THE BEST PRACTICE BACKBONE DESIGN

8.6 IMPROVING BACKBONE PERFORMANCE

8.7 IMPLICATIONS FOR CYBER SECURITY

SUMMARY

KEY TERMS

QUESTIONS

EXERCISES

MINICASES

TECH UPDATES

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 8A

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 8B

CHAPTER 9: WIDE AREA NETWORKS

9.1 INTRODUCTION

9.2 DEDICATED-CIRCUIT NETWORKS

9.3 PACKET-SWITCHED NETWORKS

9.4 VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS

9.5 THE BEST PRACTICE WAN DESIGN

9.6 IMPROVING WAN PERFORMANCE

9.7 IMPLICATIONS FOR CYBER SECURITY

SUMMARY

KEY TERMS

QUESTIONS

EXERCISES

MINICASES

TECH UPDATES

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 9A

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 9B

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 9C

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 9D

CHAPTER 10: THE INTERNET

10.1 INTRODUCTION

10.2 HOW THE INTERNET WORKS

10.3 INTERNET ACCESS TECHNOLOGIES

10.4 THE FUTURE OF THE INTERNET

10.5 IMPLICATIONS FOR CYBER SECURITY

SUMMARY

KEY TERMS

QUESTIONS

EXERCISES

MINICASES

TECH UPDATES

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 10A

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 10B

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 10C

PART FOUR: NETWORK MANAGEMENT

CHAPTER 11: NETWORK SECURITY

11.1 INTRODUCTION

11.2 RISK ASSESSMENT

11.3 ENSURING BUSINESS CONTINUITY

11.4 INTRUSION PREVENTION

11.5 BEST PRACTICE RECOMMENDATIONS

11.6 IMPLICATIONS FOR YOUR CYBER SECURITY

SUMMARY

KEY TERMS

QUESTIONS

EXERCISES

MINICASES

TECH UPDATES

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 11A

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 11B

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 11C

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 11D

CHAPTER 12: NETWORK MANAGEMENT

12.1 INTRODUCTION

12.2 DESIGNING FOR NETWORK PERFORMANCE

12.3 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

12.4 PERFORMANCE AND FAULT MANAGEMENT

12.5 END USER SUPPORT

12.6 COST MANAGEMENT

12.7 IMPLICATIONS FOR CYBER SECURITY

SUMMARY

KEY TERMS

QUESTIONS

EXERCISES

MINICASES

TECH UPDATES

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 12A

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 12B

HANDS-ON ACTIVITY 12C

INDEX

Alan Dennis is a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems and a professor of information systems in the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He holds the John T. Chambers Chair in Internet Systems, which was established to honor John Chambers, president and chief executive officer of Cisco Systems, the worldwide leader of networking technologies for the Internet.

Alexandra Durcikova is an Associate Professor at the Price College of Business, University of Oklahoma. Alexandra has a PhD in management information systems from the University of Pittsburgh. She has earned an MSc degree in solid state physics from Comenius University, Bratislava, worked as an experimental physics researcher in the area of superconductivity and as an instructor of executive MBA students prior to pursuing her PhD. Alexandra’s research interests include knowledge management and knowledge management systems, the role of organizational climate in the use of knowledge management systems, knowledge management system characteristics, governance mechanisms in the use of knowledge management systems, and human compliance with security policy and characteristics of successful phishing attempts within the area of network security. Her research appears in Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Journal of Organizational and End User Computing, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, and Communications of the ACM.

Dr. Jerry FitzGerald wrote the early editions of this book in the 1980s. At the time, he was the principal in Jerry FitzGerald & Associates, a firm he started in 1977.

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