Great Book. 4th Edition a little dated already.

Got this book to quickly learn some computer network fundamentals for my job at a startup. I come from a signal processing/communication background but didn't have that much experience with network stuff -- after reading some reviews online this seemed to be the best book to learn from. I've gone through a bunch of the initial chapter already and this book is great. It's fascinating to learn about the Internet, TCP/IP, and the history of all these things. This will be invaluable for my work. One complaint is that the 4th edition was published in 2002 so it's already a bit dated. But there's a new 5th edition out this year -- that will probably update alot of the material hopefully. Also, the coverage of wireless is a bit spotty. It covers 802.11, but I wanted to see some coverage of cellular broadband as well -- i.e. 3G, LTE, WiMax. Clearly the latter were not around in 2002 -- but maybe they'll be covered in the new edition? In short, a phenomenal book to learn the fundamentals of networking theory. Great for self learning esp if you have a technical background.

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• Great Book. 4th Edition a little dated already.
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• A good introduction
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