Product Description
This timely revision of an all-time best-seller in the field features the clarity and scope of a Stallings classic. This comprehensive volume provides the most up-to-date coverage of the essential topics in data communications, networking, Internet technology and protocols, and standards – all in a convenient modular format. Features updated coverage of multimedia, Gigabit and 10 Gbps Ethernet, WiFi/IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs, security, and much more. Ideal for professional reference or self-study. For Product Development personnel, Programmers, Systems Engineers, Network Designers and others involved in the design of data communications and networking products.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.5 based on 27 reviews)

Poor wording and terminology inconsistencies. by Byron Caudle

1 Stars
October 14, 2009
This book is written decently if you are using it a professional reference text. As class textbook it is a poor choice for one reason. The terminology used in the chapter questions does not match up with the terminology used in the rest of the text about half the time. Students are left wondering what the questions are really asking and what some the new terms mean. This book makes the topics way more complicated than they need to be, and it is all a result of terminology inconsistencies.

great book by Tariq A. Alwalah (Saudi Arabia)

4 Stars
August 12, 2009
The book covers most of the important aspects of communication and network. The basics of communication theories including nyquist & shannon . It provides a solid background of network, communication and basics of how things work from network & communications point-view , I loved it Tariq Al-walah

Great! by Wilfredo Rivera (Weehawken, NJ)

4 Stars
April 03, 2009
Only downfall was the time it took 2 get. Besides that book was in very good condition. No highligts/markings and no bent pages. Would def do business w/ Seller again. Btw...ty Seller. Newyorican1

Textbooks are too expensive by Gregory Motes (Seoul)

1 Stars
January 19, 2009
Same review as other textbook reviews (by me). I am not big on Government intervention, but, while this textbook is as good as any others - most textbooks are way too expensive. It becomes a sort of monopoly (and a tax on students that is unavoidable). My PhD is in Instructional Technology - so I had to purchase this book. Perhaps my IT bias leads me to my conclusion -- we should not have to pay this much money for a paper book. Maybe I just don't understand why it costs over $100 for a book - particularly for a technology book that will soon become an outdated and unusable reference. Finally, I come to this conclusion even though the money for all of my textbooks are provided by my scholarship. Students are already saddled with extraneous costs -- costs that are piled upon by publishers of textbooks.

Writing Accuracy by Will S-speare

3 Stars
September 29, 2008
Just one issue: The text would repeatedly refer to various devices, procedures, menus, etc. inaccurately. It made using IT Guru frustrating at times because I wasn't always sure if I was selecting or doing the right thing. Perhaps they should have had someone actually use it before they published. "?"

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