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Listed here are the required texts and a large collection of additional reading. The books vary from overview to detailed from business applications to technical texts.

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Required Texts

Avram, C (ed.) (1996) Reading in Telecommunications Applications, Australian Computer Society, Melbourne, Australia. This will be provided free of charge to students one module at a time.

Orfali, Robert, Harkey, Dan and Edwards, Jeri (1996) The essential client/server survival guide (2nd. ed.), John Wiley & Sons Inc. pp. 675.

Additional Reading

Black, Uyless D. (1995) The X series recommendations : standards for data communications (2nd. ed.), McGraw-Hill, Inc. pp. 333.

Comer, Douglas (1991) Internetworking with TCP/IP. Vol. I , Principles, protocols, and architecture (2nd. ed.), Prentice Hall pp. 547.

Comer, Douglas and Stevens, David L. (1994) Internetworking with TCP/IP. Vol. II, Design, implementation and internals (2nd ed.), Prentice-Hall pp. 612.

Comer, Douglas and Stevens, David L. (1994) Internetworking with TCP/IP. Vol. III, Client-server programming and applications, Prentice Hall pp. 508.

Comer, Douglas (1994) The Internet book : everything you need to know about computer networking and how the Internet works, Prentice Hall.

Cronin, Mary J. (1996) Global advantage in the Internet : from corporate connectivity to international competitiveness, Van Nostrand Reinhold, pp. 358.

Davidson, Robert P. (1996) Broadband networks : a manager's guide, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. pp. 264.

Kaufman, Charlie, Perlman, Radia and Speciner, Mike (1995) Network security : private communication in a public world, Prentice Hall PTR pp. 504.

Stallings, William (1992) ISDN and broadband ISDN (2nd. ed.), Macmillian Publishing Company pp. 633.

Stallings,William and Van Slyke, Richard (1994) Business Data Communications (2nd. ed.), Prentice Hall Inc. pp. 658.

Valovic, Thomas (1993) Corporate networks : the strategic use of telecommunications, Artech House, Boston pp.156.


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