Practical Data Communications

ROGER L. FREEMAN is a veteran of more than forty-five years in telecommunication system design and operation. A senior life member of the IEEE, Mr. Freeman is a frequent lecturer and prolific author with more than fifty articles published in international technical journals. His previous Wiley titles include Reference Manual for Telecommunications Engineering, Telecommunication Transmission Handbook, Telecommunication System Engineering, Radio System Design for Telecommunications, and Fundamentals of Telecommunications.

• Preface. The Enterprise Network Environment. The OSI Model and the Data-Link Layer. High-Level Data-Link Control (HDLC) Typical-Data Link LayerProtocol. Data Network Operations. Data Transmission I. Data Transmission II. The Telecommunications Network as a Vehicle for DataTransport. The Transmission of Data Over the Analog Voice Channel. Data Communications in the Office Environment -Part 1. Data Communications in the Office Environment -Part 2. Wide Area Networks (WANs). Frame Relay. Integrated Services Digital Networks (ISDNs). Building and Campus Wiring and Cabling for DataCommunications. Broadband Data Transport Techniques. Broadband ISDN (B-ISDN) and the Asynchronous Transfer Mode(ATM). Last-Mile Data Distribution Systems. Network Management for Enterprise Networks. Appendix I: Addressing Conventions. Appendix II: Acronyms and Abbreviations. Index.

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