The Internet Book

Everything You Need to Know About Computer Networking and How the Internet Works

Douglas E. Comer

351 pages, parution le 01/11/2000 (3^eme édition)

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Résumé

Provides an overview of Electronic Commerce and how the Internet can be used to conduct business and commercial transactions
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Includes Security and Encryption with respect to Internet commerce, why security is needed, and the technologies that provide secure communications
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Describes getting started with hands on experience with the concept of a Web browser and examples of Web sites to visit
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Updates topics throughout and adds information about current technologies such as shopping carts, cookies, personalized Web search results, Internet faxes, remote desktops, and streaming audio and video
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Covers Internet connection technologies: ADSL, cable modems, and wireless networks
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Contents

1. The Internet Has Arrived. 
 2. Getting Started: Hands-On Experience. 
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 I. INTRODUCTION TO NETWORKING. 
 <div></div> 3. Telephones Everywhere. 
 4. The World Was Once Analog. 
 5. The Once and Future Digital Network. 
 6. Basic Communication. 
 7. The Local Area Network Arrives. 
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 II. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE INTERNET. 
 <div></div> 8. Internet: The Early Years. 
 9. Two Decades of Incredible Growth. 
 10. The Global Internet. 
 11. A Global Information Infrastructure. 
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 III. HOW THE INTERNET WORKS. 
 <div></div> 12. Packet Switching. 
 13. Internet: A Network of Networks. 
 14. ISPs and Network Connections. 
 15. IP: Software to Create a Virtual Network. 
 16. TCP: Software for Reliable Communication. 
 17. Clients + Servers = Distributed Computing. 
 18. Names for Computers. 
 19. Why the Internet Works Well. 
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 IV. SERVICES AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET. 
 <div></div> 20. Electronic Mail. 
 21. Bulletin Board Service (Network News). 
 22. Browsing the World Wide Web. 
 23. World Wide Web Documents (HTML). 
 24. Advanced Web Technologies (Forms, Frames, Plugins, CGI, Java, JavaScript). 
 25. Automated Web Search (Search Engines). 
 26. Audio and Video Communication. 
 27. Faxes and Files (FTP). 
 28. Remote Login And Remote Desktops (TELNET). 
 29. Facilities for Secure Communication. 
 30. Electronic Commerce and Business. 
 31. The Global Digital Library. 
 Appendices. 
 Index.

L'auteur - Douglas E. Comer

Douglas E. Comer

is a Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University and a Fellow of the ACM. He is the author of many best-selling books: the three-volume series, Internetworking with TCP/IP Computer Networks and Internets, Second Edition, and The Internet Book. Comer served as chairman of the DARPA Distributed Systems Architecture Board and the CSNET Technical Committees, and is a former member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB).

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Prentice Hall
Auteur(s)	Douglas E. Comer
Parution	01/11/2000
Édition	3^eme édition
Nb. de pages	351
Format	17,7 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	577g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780130308528