Networking in the Internet Age

Rating:
Summary: In Need of Editing
Review: A very technical, academic-style text, apparently thrown together hastily with little concern for clarity. Many chapters are riddled with typographical errors, some of which (particularly in the diagrams) outright mislead the student.

As a student, reading this book regularly put me to sleep, but that may say as much about my interest in the material as it does about the author's presentation of it. Or perhaps the author just likes putting people to sleep.

Rating:
Summary: Good textbook
Review: I'm using this as a textbook for my Network Technologies classes for MS IT and MS IM graduate students. I also found this relevant to MBA students as I teach another class at the Graduate School of Business entitled, Network Technology Management. The structure of the topics is excellent; however I normally postpone discussing the Internetwork Layers (TCP/IP, routing, etc.) only after the discussion on the Internet. Students relate better with the more technical stuff on routing and TCP/IP that way.