LOCAL AREA NETWORKS

 

 

CONTENTS

 

 

PREFACE

 

CHAPTER   1              Local Area Networks

CHAPTER   2              Data Communications

CHAPTER   3              Topologies and Transmission Media

CHAPTER   4              Protocols

CHAPTER   5              Network Architecture and Standards

CHAPTER   6              Cost Benefit Analysis of a LAN

CHAPTER   7              Evaluating and Selecting a LAN

CHAPTER   8              Evaluation and Selection of Software Packages

CHAPTER   9              Planning and Installing a LAN

CHAPTER  10             Utilising a LAN

CHAPTER  11             Mainframe Connection

CHAPTER  12             Network Security

CHAPTER  13             Client/Server Computing

CHAPTER  14             LAN Databases

CHAPTER  15             An Overview of Novell Network

CHAPTER  16             Ethernet

CHAPTER  17             Digital Network Architecture

CHAPTER  18             Systems Network Architecture

CHAPTER  19             Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

CHAPTER  20             Internetworking and Connectivity

CHAPTER  21             Network Management

CHAPTER  22             Office Automation

CHAPTER  23             Electronic Mail

CHAPTER  24             Electronic Data Interchange

CHAPTER  25             X.25 Overview

CHAPTER  26             Integrated Services Digital Network

CHAPTER  27             Wide Area Networks

CHAPTER  28             Future Trends in Local Area Networks

CHAPTER  29             Wireless LANs

CHAPTER  30             Wireless LAN Media Components: AIR

CHAPTER  31             Wireless LAN Operations & Connections

CHAPTER  32             Frame Relay, ATM & SONET/SDH

CHAPTER  33             The Physical and Datalink Layers

CHAPTER  34             Network Layer

CHAPTER  35             Transport Layer

CHAPTER  36             Application Layer Services

CHAPTER  37             Upper OSI Layer

CHAPTER  38             The Domain Name System

CHAPTER  39             The Network File System

CHAPTER  40             SNMP: Simple Network Management Protocol

CHAPTER  41             Internet Protocol Version 6: IPV6

CHAPTER   A             Questions and Answers on LANs

CHAPTER   B             Selecting Personal Computers

CHAPTER   C             Computer Viruses

CHAPTER   D             Encoding Schemes

CHAPTER   E             Standards Organisations

CHAPTER   F             ISO OSI Standards Documents

CHAPTER   G             Abbreviations and Acronyms

CHAPTER   H             Glossary

CHAPTER   I             List of Computer Journals

CHAPTER   J             References