This book is required reading for a network management course I am taking. The book is generally informative at maybe a college junior business student level 1st network management course. It is easy to read and discusses some important subjects. I have not finished it yet.
The authors do go off on a tangent about writing network speeds correctly which I think is a bit overdone.
The cost of the book is just way too high for me. If it was not required I would not have purchased this book.
I'm Computer Information Systems major in my university's business school and took this class the first semester of my senior year. Telecomm is more towards the technical end of our curriculum, but the information I got from this textbook -- and the associated class -- was invaluable. Even though I didn't have a very technical background like most Engineering or Computer Science students probably do, I found the book to be relatively easy to read. It went into sufficient depth that I was able to thoroughly understand the major concepts, but wasn't so comprehensive in the material it covered to the point that I lost sight of the big picture.
Having taught IT undergrads from earlier versions of this text, I'm extremely disappointed with the disjointed flow of the chapters, but also the helter-skelter way things are thrown together within the chapters. One of many, many examples- Early on, you get students just enough into protocols like TCP and UDP, the 5-layer model and such, and then break off into network security and management? Several chapter later you come back to TCP/IP, after new students have forgotten the earlier stuff several chapters earlier. It's crazy, it's confusing, and this edition is not one I want to continue with. And the price is simply insane- you could cut it in half and it would still be overpriced.
Product Details :
- Hardcover: 528 pages
- Publisher: Prentice Hall; 8 edition (August 4, 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0136100120
- ISBN-13: 978-0136100126
- Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 0.9 x 9.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds
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