Introduction to Business Data Communications with Broadband and Wireless

About the Book

This book integrates business issues involving the telecommunications industry using Porter’s 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.

About the Author

Phil spent roughly 30 years with Bell Laboratories as a computer scientist, working on various aspects of telecommunication. The last 10 years of this were with the protocol architecture group at Bell Laboratories. Since retiring, Phil has taught telecommunications at Rutgers University and the College of William & Mary.