Beasley Jeffrey S. - A Practical Guide to Advanced Networking (paperback)

Jeffrey S. Beasley and Piyasat Nilkaew

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A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO ADVANCED NETWORKING

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Jeffrey S. Beasley is with the Department of Engineering Technology and Surveying Engineering at New Mexico State University. He has been teaching with the department since 1988 and is the co-author of Modern Electronic Communication and Electronic Devices and Circuits, and the author of Networking.

Piyasat Nilkaew is a network engineer with 15 years of experience in network management and consulting, and has extensive expertise in deploying and integrating multiprotocol and multivendor data, voice, and video network solutions on limited budgets.

This book is dedicated to my family, Kim, Damon, and Dana.

Jeff Beasley

This book is dedicated to Jeff Harris and Norma Grijalva. Not only have you given me my networking career, but you are also my mentors. You inspire me to think outside the box and motivate me to continue improving my skills. Thank you for giving me the opportunity of a lifetime. I am very grateful.

Piyasat Nilkaew

I am grateful to the many people who have helped with this text. My sincere thanks go to the following technical consultants:

Danny Bosch and Matthew Peralta for sharing their expertise with optical networks and unshielded twisted-pair cabling, and Don Yates for his help with the initial Net-Challenge Software.

Abel Sanchez, for his review of the Linux Networking chapter.

I also want to thank my many past and present students for their help with this book:

David Potts, Jonathan Trejo, and Nate Murillo for their work on the Net-Challenge Software. Josiah Jones, Raul Marquez Jr., Brandon Wise, and Chris Lascano for their help with the Wireshark material. Also, thanks to Wayne Randall and Iantha Finley Malbon for the chapter reviews.

Your efforts are greatly appreciated.

I appreciate the excellent feedback of the following reviewers: Phillip Davis, DelMar College, TX; Thomas D. Edwards, Carteret Community College, NC; William Hessmiller, Editors & Training Associates; Bill Liu, DeVry University, CA; and Timothy Staley, DeVry University, TX.

My thanks to the people at Pearson for making this project possible: Dave Dusthimer, for providing me with the opportunity to work on this book, and Vanessa Evans, for helping make this process enjoyable. Thanks to Brett Bartow, Christopher Cleveland, and all the people at Pearson, and to the many technical editors for their help with editing the manuscript.

Special thanks to our families for their continued support and patience.

Jeffrey S. Beasley and Piyasat Nilkaew

Wayne Randall started working in the Information Technology field in 1994 at Franklin Pierce College (now Franklin Pierce University) in Rindge, NH, before becoming a Microsoft Certified Trainer and a consultant at Enterprise Training and Consulting in Nashua, NH.

Wayne acquired his first certification in Windows NT 3.51 in 1994, became an MCSE in NT 4.0 in 1996, was a Certified Enterasys Network Switching Engineer in 2000, and then worked as a networking and systems consultant from 2001 to 2006 before becoming a director of IT for a privately held company. Wayne currently works for Bodycote, PLC, as a network engineer/solutions architect. Bodycote has 170 locations across 27 countries with 43 locations in North America. Wayne has taught for Lincoln Education since 2001 and developed curricula for it since 2011. Mr. Randall holds a BA in American Studies from Franklin Pierce University.

Iantha Finley Malbons teaching career has spanned 20 years from middle school to collegiate settings and is currently a CIS professor at Virginia Union University. She is also an adjunct professor at ECPI University, having previously served as CIS Department Chair, teaching Cisco routing, networking, and Information Technology courses. She implemented the Cisco Academy for Hanover Schools and was the CCAI for the Academy. She earned her masters degree in Information Systems from Virginia Commonwealth University and bachelors degree in Technology Education from Virginia Tech. She holds numerous certifications including CCNA, Network+, A+, and Fiber Optic Technician.

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