For undergraduate and graduate business data communications and networking courses. Panko teaches students about the technologies that are being used in the marketplace.

Chapter 1 An Introduction to Networking
Chapter 1a Introduction Design and Hands-On Excercise
Chapter 2 Network Standards
Chapter 3 Physical Layer Propagation
Chapter 3a Hands On : Cutting and Connectorizing UTP
Chapter 4 Ethernet LANs
Chapter 4a Token-Ring Networks and Early Ethernet Technologies
Chapter 5 Wireless LANs (WLANs)
Chapter 6 Telecommunications
Chapter 7 Wide Area Networks (WANs)
Chapter 7a Case Study: First Bank of Paradise's Wide Area Networks
Chapter 8 TCP/IP Internetworking
Chapter 8a Hands on: Packet Capture and Analysis with WinDump and TCPDump
Chapter 9 Security
Chapter 10 Network Management
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