CHAPTER 9 Wired networks
Networks provide data exchange between servers and nodes in a computer system. In the early days of office and enterprise networking, many different technologies emerged, such as Token Ring, Banyan VINES, Ethernet, and Fiber Distributed Data Interface. Ethernet became the prevailing standardized technology for everything from home networking to large enterprise systems.
The following three chapters discuss different aspects of networking. This chapter provides an overview of wired networks, with a focus on Ethernet. Chapter 10 discusses wireless networks. Chapter 11 goes technical and focuses on networking technologies, including Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) layers, protocols, ...
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