Description
A business-driven approach to understanding data communications.
Explaining the why and how of data communications, Michael Gendron’s new textbook, Business Driven Data Communications, takes a business-driven infrastructure design approach—rather than solely focusing on a technical networking approach. Overall, this text presents technical material within the focus of business process support and infrastructure design.
Table of Contents
Unit 1: ICT Infrastructure Components; a Technical Overview
Chapter 1: ICT Infrastructure Introductory Concepts
Chapter 2: Building the Local Area Network Using Ethernet
Chapter 3: Extending the LAN through WAN Connections
Chapter 4: Wrapping up Service, User and Enterprise User Components
Unit 2: Additional ICT Concepts
Chapter 5: Obtaining Services Through Cloud Computing
Chapter 6: Security
Unit 3: Understanding the Business of Infrastructure Design
Chapter 7: Infrastructure and the Enterprise
Chapter 8: Business Processes
Chapter 9: Assessing the Business Value of ICT Resource Investments
Unit 4: Steps to the Strategic Alignment of IT
Chapter 10: Analyzing the Organization and its Environment
Chapter 11: Designing ICT: Documenting Process and Technology Recommendations
Chapter 12: Summarizing the Business Driven Infrastructure Design Cycle: Analysis, Design, Implementation and Post-Implementation
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Business Driven Data Communications, CourseSmart eTextbook
Format: Electronic Book
$62.99 | ISBN-13: 978-0-13-225127-3
