Uyless black's networking 101 video course (CD-ROM)

Master the fundamentals of networking today, with this complete video course from one of the worlds leading consultants!

• 4+ hours of digital video instruction by your personal trainer, best-selling author and world-renowned consultant Uyless Black.
• Live lectures, assessment questions, companion workbook, Web resource links, and more!
• Based on the same "Networking 101" seminar that costs $500 in person!

Whatever your role in the technology industry -- from marketing to programming -- you need a clear understanding of the fundamentals of networking. With this video course, legendary author and consultant Uyless Black becomes your personal networking trainer, delivering more than four hours of outstanding digital video instruction covering every essential concept underlying networks and the Internet. Based on Blacks popular live seminars, this course brings together expert lectures, interactive Q&,As, Web resources, and a complete companion workbook -- all designed to help you master networking quickly and painlessly! Black first introduces the fundamentals of human and machine communications, and sketches how networks transmit information between users. He introduces modems and the classic switched telephone network, then quickly moves on to todays sophisticated digital networks. He clearly explains key concepts such as bit rates, bandwidth, and multiplexing, and shows how voice and data can be integrated. Finally, he introduces key issues associated with the Internet, including network addressing and names, routing, backup, route discovery, and the role of Internet Service Providers.

1. Getting Started.
2. Machine and Human Communications.
3. Send User Traffic Through a Network.
4. The Modem and the Telephone Network.
5. Digital Networks.
6. Bit Rates and Bandwidth.
7. Voice and Data Characteristics.
8. Multiplexing User Traffic in a Network.
9. Network IDs: Addresses.
10. Network IDs: Names.
11. Connecting to a Data Network.
12. Routing Traffic Through the Network.
13. Backup and Route Discovery in the Network.
14. The Internet and ISPs.
15. Network IDs Revisited: Domain Names.
16. Putting It Together.
17. Dialing Into the Internet.
18. The Web.
19. The Well-known Protocols.
20. Wrap-Up.