DATA COMMUNICATIONS
© Copyright Brian Brown, 1995-2000. All rights reserved.

Contents

1. Introduction to Communications (Early forms, Shannon's Model, levels)
2. Evolution of modern telecommunication networks
3. Cables and Network Communication Systems
4. The Public Telephone Switched Network
5. The Internet
6. Signal Characteristics (analogue and digital)
7. Standards Organizations
8. Electrical Standards and RS-232
9. Data Codes (Baudot and ASCII)
10. Channel Organization (Parallel and Serial)
11. Asynchronous and Synchronous Protocols
12. Binary Synchronous
13. Bit Orientated Protocols
14. Simplex, Half-Duplex and Duplex Circuits
15. Modems
16. Modulation Methods
17. TCP/IP and Inter-Networking
18. Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) Model
19. WAN interconnections, Analog Modems, Leased Lines, X.25, ISDN
20. WAN interconnections, Frame Relay, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), xDSL (Digital Subscriber Line) [under development]

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