Mastering Global Information Systems
| By: | William J Buchanan |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury UK |
| Print ISBN: | 9780333689516 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781349144112 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 1997 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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This book provides an excellent foundation in modern information systems and data communications. It has five basic themes:
- Digital Information Sources and Multimedia;
- The Internet, the World Wide Web and Java;
- Local area Networking;
- Wide area Networking;
- Video Conferencing.
The information sources material covers the main standards in digital information on modern computer systems. It includes the conversion of sound and images into a digital format.
The networking material introduces the main local area network technologies:
- Ethernet;
- Token Ring;
- FDDI.
Modern Wide Area Network technologies like ATM are considered, also the usage of ISDN and Modems for interconnection.