Introduction to Business Data Communications with Broadband and Wireless

This book integrates business issues involving the telecommunications industry using Porters Competitive Forces and Supply Chain models, to technical principles of the inner-workings of data communication and telecommunications. Some issues covered include: computer timing in distributed systems, multiplexing, circuit- and packet-switching, and protocol architecture. These technical issues are prefaced with an overview of client-server and three-layer architecture. The book concludes with material on the web and the standards and regulation processes, facing firms in this industry.