TY  - GEN
AU  - William Stanllings
AU  - Richard Van Slyke
TI  - BUSINESS DATA COMMUNICATIONS SECOND EDITION
T2  - series
SN  - 0-02-415433-4
PB  - MACMILLAN
KW  - Bussines Data
N1  - 1 Ejemplar; Editorial
MACMILLAN
ISBN 
0-02-415433-4; Introduction

1-1 Information and Communications 1

1-2 The Manager's Dilemma 3

1-3 The Nature of Business Requirements 3

1-4 Distributed Data Processing 5

1-5 Transmission of Information 5

1-6 Networks 8

1-7 Communications Software 10

1-8 Management Issues 14

1-9 Supplementary Information 16

1-10 Managing Communications 16

CASE STUDY: Airline Information Systems

20

REQUIREMENTS

Business Information

2-1 Voice 33

2-2 Data 34

2-3 Image 38

2-4 Video 41

2-5 Summary 42

2-6 Recommended Reading 44

Distributed Data Processing

3-1 Centralized Versus Distributed Data Processing 47

3-2 Forms of Distributed Data Processing 57

3-3 Communications Implications of DDP 67

3-4 Summary 70

3-5 Recommended Reading
PART TWO

Chapter 4

FUNDAMENTALS

Transmission and Transmission Media

4-1 Signals for Conveying Information 77

4-2 Transmission Impairments and Channel Capacity 92

4-3 Transmission Media 98

4-4 Summary 119

4-5 Recommended Reading 120

CASE STUDY: Boeing Computer Services, Inc. 122

Chapter 5

Communication Techniques

5-1 Signal Encoding 125

5-2 Asynchronous and Synchronous Transmission 140

5-3 Interfacing 144

5-4 Line Configurations 150

5-5 Flow Control 153

5-6 Error Detection 159

5-7 Error Correction 163

5-8 Link Control 167

5-9 Summary 176

5-10 Recommended Reading

177

Chapter 6

Transmission Efficiency

6-1 The Need for Transmission Efficiency

6-2 Frequency-Division Multiplexing 188

180

6-3 Synchronous Time-Division Multiplexing 193 6-4 Statistical Time-Division Multiplexing 203

6-5 Data Compression 209

6-6 Summary 220

6-7 Recommended Reading 222

CASE STUDY: Katz Communications Corporation

223

CASE STUDY: Pennbancorp 225

PART II CASE STUDY: Metropolitan Life Insurance Company

227

PART THREE

NETWORKING

Chapter 7

Wide-Area Networks

7-1 Circuit-Switching Technology 238

7-2 Circuit-Switching Networks

249

7-3 Packet-Switching Networks

262


N2  - When Marshall McLuhan coined the term global village in the 1960s, he perhaps foresaw that beginning in the 1980s General Motors would operate a network that linked more than 500,000 computing devices and telephones and connected 18,000 locations worldwide. Or that American Airlines' SABER reservations network, linking more than 60,000 video terminals all over the planet to six massive mainframe computers, sometimes would post larger annual revenues than did the airline itself
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