Customer Review: A fairly well-written book. Asumes reader has prior basic knowledge. Gives helpful sources for more information. Included CD is pretty useless unless you're intent on wasting some time. Would recommend to those wanting to pursue this activity.
Customer Review: I was expecting a lot more of this book. It's probably a good book for a business person to understand technical infrastructure but for those already in IT, it is more of a review. For example, chapter 6 talks about DSL, VOIP, and how cellular networks work. For people in the technical field the... more info
Customer Review: I found this to be one of the best technical books written - ever. When the authors demanded my full attention by advising in the Intro section that the book has to be read from beginning to end in a sequence, I was initially put off. But then once I got going, it was un-put-downable. I have another... more info
Customer Review: This book is the basis for so much that we already know - or should know. Re-reading it this year (2008) after so long was a shock to my senses. It showed me how on target the economic principles expressed between the covers were. Of course, that is one of the points of the book: old economic... more info
Customer Review: The book is okay as far as textbooks go, but there is no real companion site. Most textbooks have decent companion sites with study guides, quizzes, glossary, etc. This one has none of that, only the slides that go with the chapter.
