DATA COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING

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data COMMUNICATIONSANDNETWORKING Second Edition FM Page i Wednesday, February 23, 2000 2:30 PM FM Page ii Wednesday, February 23, 2000 2:30 PM data COMMUNICATIONSANDNETWORKING Second Edition Behrouz A. Forouzan DeAnza College with Catherine Coombs and Sophia Chung FeganBoston Burr Ridge, IL Dubuque, IA Madison, WI New York San Francisco StBangkok Bogot Caracas Lisbon London MadridMexico City Milan New Delhi Seoul Singapore Sydney Taipei Toronto FM Page iii Wednesday, February 23, 2000 2:30 PM data COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKINGPublished by McGraw-Hill, an imprint of the McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY, 10020. Copyright 2001, 1998 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written consent of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

1.1 WHY STUDY DATA COMMUNICATIONS 1 1.2 DATA COMMUNICATION 2 Components 3 1.3 NETWORKS 4 Distributed Processing 4 Network Criteria 5 Applications 6 1.4 PROTOCOLS AND STANDARDS 7 Protocols 7 Standards 8 1.5 STANDARDS ORGANIZATIONS 9 Standards Creation Committees 9 Forums 12 Regulatory Agencies 13 1.6 STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK 13 1.7 KEY …

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