Computer networks. Principles, technologies, protocols. Olifer V.G., Olifer N.A.

This publication in a sense is special - exactly 20 years have passed since the release of the book. 20 years is not a short time, during this time the children of our first readers have grown up and, possibly, became interested in computer networks. And, perhaps, they will have a jubilee supplemented edition of the book “Computer networks. Principles, technologies, protocols. " This book is significantly different from the one that their parents read. Much of what was interested in readers of the late 90s-for example, the rule of 4 hubs, the coordination of IP and IPX networks or the comparison of technologies of 100vg-Anylan and FDDI-is not mentioned at all in recent editions. Over 20 years, many technologies have passed a full cycle from a fashionable term and universal recognition for almost complete oblivion. Each new edition of the book, to one degree or another, reflected changes in the landscape of network technologies.

is the exception of this publication - it has been significantly processed, about a third of the material is a completely new information or a substantially processed presentation of topics. For example, a new part of “Wireless Networks” appeared in the book, a part of the primary SDH, OTN and DWDM technologies is completely processed.

the book was translated into English, Spanish, Chinese and Portuguese. P> The publication is intended for students, graduate students and technical specialists who would like to get basic knowledge about the principles of building computer networks, understand the features of traditional and promising technologies of local and global networks, study the ways of creating large composite networks and managing such networks.

recommended by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation as a textbook for students of higher educational institutions students in the direction of "Informatics and computer technology" and in the specialties "Computing machines, complexes, systems and networks", "Automated machines, complexes, systems and networks "," software of computer equipment and automated systems ".