How Networks Work

BOOK CONTENTS

Part 1 Communicating by Wire

Chapter 1 Morse's Telegraph
Chapter 2 Bell's Telephone
Chapter 3 Kleinschmidt's Teletype
Chapter 4 The First Networks

Part 2 Mixing Computers and Telephones

Chapter 5 From Keypunches to Terminals
Chapter 6 The Carterphone Decision
Chapter 7 Alphabet Soup: ASCII, BAUDOT, and EBCIDIC
Chapter 8 AT&T's 103 Modem
Chapter 9 Dialing for Data
Chapter 10 The RS-232 Communications Standard
Chapter 11 The PC as a Terminal
Chapter 12 Modems with Brains
Chapter 13 The FAX Revolution

Part 3 Local Area Networks

Chapter 14 A LAN Overview
Chapter 15 How Network Operating System Software Works
Chapter 16 How a LAN Adapter Works
Chapter 17 Network Standards
Chapter 18 Server-based LANs
Chapter 19 Peer-to-Peer LANs
Chapter 20 Network Management

Part 4 LAN-to-LAN Connections

Chapter 21 Portals on the LAN
Chapter 22 Metropolitan Area Network Links
Chapter 23 Switched Digital Services
Chapter 24 Public Data Networks

Part 5 Applications: Putting it all Together

Chapter 25 Information Services
Chapter 26 Electronic Mail
Chapter 27 LAN Applications