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(More customer reviews)This book was used as the text of our graduate level course "telecommunication networks", but our instructor rarely used it in lectures, although he mentioned that most of the content would be covered in the exams. And we finally found that he cheated us, because this text was useless to prepare for the exams. :)
I find that this book almost covers everything, such as ISO/OSI, TCP/IP, telephone networks, xDSL, ATM, SONET, wireless, etc. When you want to know something, you can always find the terms in the index, but when you access the content and you will find it is so hard to read. You spend a lot of time on it, but at last you still do not understand more.
I recommend Tanenbaum's Computer Networks is a good book to understand many terms in communication networks, although there is some mistakes, such as CRC was interpreted as Cyclic Redundancy Code. If you want to know queuing theory, you can refer to Saadawi, et al.'s Fundamentals of Telecommunication Networks. If you want to know routing and switching, you can have a look at Perlman's Interconnections, Second Edition. These books are good to understand the basic theory of networking.
When you buy a book, your book should explain the relative terms thoroughly but maybe not cover everything, and with least errors and typos. Otherwise, you will feel annoyed to have it on your bookshelf.
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