Product Description

Definitive guide to networking How do you cope with all the technologies and products that must coexist on the same system? How do you internetwork powerful new ones? You'll find all the answers in Networking Handbook, Ed TaylorAEs A-Z guide that breaks networking down, topic by topic, into easily understood sections. You'll explore the benefits of different network types...network components...and network device operation and integration. Up-to-date coverage keeps you on top of ATM...Serial Line Data Link Protocols... Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet... ISDN...Frame Relay...High Speed Token Ring...XDSL Protocol and Technology...FDDI...Synchronous Data Link...Windows Networking...TCP/IP...SNA...Netware...and Voice over IP. Internetworking troubleshooting tools and case studies give you the edge you need to identify and solve problems on the job.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3993593 in Books
• Published on: 2000-01-18
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 896 pages

From the Back Cover

The definitive guide to networking

How do you cope with all the technologies and products that must coexist on the same system? How do you internetwork powerful new ones? You'll find all the answers in Networking Handbook, Ed Taylor's A-Z guide that breaks networking down, topic by topic, into easily understood sections. You'll explore the benefits of different network types, network components, and network device operation and integration.

Up-to-date coverage keeps you on top of:

ATM Serial Line Data Link Protocols Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet ISDN Frame Relay High Speed Token Ring XDSL Protocol and Technology FDDI Synchronous Data Link Windows Networking TCP/IP SNA Netware Voice over IP

Internetworking troubleshooting tools and case studies give you the edge you need to identify and solve problems on the job.

About the Author
Ed Taylor (Dallas, TX) is the Chief Information Architect for Information World, a consulting and network engineering firm. Mr. Taylor has advised companies and has served as a network consultant for several Fortune 500 companies and is a former Network Architect for IBM.

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Customer Reviews

I would have given it 0 stars if it was an option.
This is actually the worst book on networking I have ever read. It does not live up to the claims on the cover in any way. Either the author goes into tedious detail on trivial points or he skims lightly over more important ones. In no way does this book tie together the concepts and present the design of a real network. If you want disjointed, detailed descriptions of smallest pieces of a network, this is your book. However, this book will not describe how all of the pieces of the puzzle fit together.

The Networking Handbook
Save your Money... Of the over 200 books I have studied on networking I must say that this book is the most disappointing of any book I have ever seen.

Ed, Save a tree put your hundreds of pages of protocol analysis recordings on the CD-ROM and please give us Timely, searchable and up to date RFCs not just a copy of the RFCs form the FTP site. Give us some Value added !

Good book
The networking handbook is my general reference along with other books. Basics are provided and some other info too. I would buy it again