Text Books

Required

Business Data Communications, Sixth Edition
William Stallings
Pearson, 2009

Recommended

Business Data Communications & Networking, Tenth Edition
Jerry Fitzerald and Alan Dennis
John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2009

Computer Networks, Fifth Edition
Andrew S. Tanenbaum and David J. Wetherall
Prentice Hall, 2011

References

• Information System
• Integrating Telephony, IM, Video And Mobility With Presence
• Unified Communications
• Standards Australia
• ACMA
• Centralized Computing
• Decentralized Computing
• ARPANET
• The Internet
• RFC1122 - Communications Protocol Layers
• RFC1123 - Application and Support Protocols
• Internet Exchange Point
• Domain Name System
• Generic top-level domain
• RFC1034 - Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities
• RFC1035 - Domain Names - Implementation and Specification
• ICANN
• Internet protocol suite
• OSI
• Transmission Control Protocol
• User Datagram Protocol
• IPv4
• IPv6
• Client-server
• Peer-to-peer
• SOA
• Email
• RFC5322 - Internet Message Format
• SMTP
• RFC5321 - SMTP
• MIME
• MIME: RFC2045, RFC2046, RFC2047, RFC4288, RFC4289, RFC2049
• MIME Media Types
• IMAP
• POP
• HTTP
• URI
• Proxy Servers
• Cookie
• SIP
• RFC3261 - SIP
• SDP
• RFC4566 - SDP
• BGP
• OSPF
• Differentiated Services
• Twisted pair
• Coaxial cable
• Wide area network
• Packet switching
• Circuit switching
• Cellular network
• Wireless Application Protocol