Product Description: This practical, hands-on guide explains how different types of networks operate and how they can be made to coexist, interwork or cooperate to serve a wide range of user needs. Within its 33 chapters, you'll find the whole picture explained--the techniques and administrative controls, industry jargon, how to expand systems of linked computers, international and mobile communications and worldwide regulations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)