Product Description
This informal, conversational guide explains more than 3000 networking concepts, terms, protocols, chips, standards, versions, product names, commands, abbreviations, acronyms, slang, and more--with detailed illustrations to clarify hardware, cabling, and network protocols issues. Coverage includes Windows 2000, NetWare 5, Linux, Unix, UnixWare, OS/2, Banyan VINES, Windows 98, and thin-client technologies. The CD contains an electronic version of the full text of the book.
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At Last--Clear and Comprehensible Definitions of All the Networking Acronyms, Terms, and Abbreviations You Need to Know
The Dictionary of Networking is a highly readable, authoritative guide to the extensive--and often bewildering--terminology of network computing. This completely updated, expanded third edition spans all aspects of networking hardware and software--from peer-to-peer networks to enterprise wide area networks (WANs), the Internet, and internetworking--and covers every major network operating system. Topics include:
- Certification programs
- Communications
- Industry standards
- The Internet and intranets
- LANs, MANs, WANs
- Mobile and wireless computing
- Network administration
- Networking theory and concepts
- Operating systems and environments
- PC and server hardware
- Protocols
- Security
- Slang
- Voice and data transmissions
This book contains more than 3,000 entries. Abbreviations and acronyms are cross-referenced to their definitions, and many entries include additional cross-references to related entries. You'll find clear, concise definitions, acronyms and abbreviations defined in context.
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