Reviews for Data communications for engineers

The average rating for Data communications for engineers based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-11-27 00:00:00 Michael Donohue This is one of the worst academic material I've come across. Not to mention,it's super lengthy and repeats the same thing in different manner for pages after pages,this book gives too much importance to physical layer and data link layer,the network layer is comparatively better while there are hardly any matter pertaining to the transport layer and application layer which are the two most important layers in the internet spectrum. Exactly 50% of the book is devoted to the most unimportant and useless physical layer and as we go up the layers,the material decreases which actually should have been opposite. So when it comes Computer Networks, Kurose & Ross is the best bet,not only they follow the top-down approach but have actually removed the entire physical layer from their book. Maybe for the electronics based students,physical layer might be important,but for CS folks,it a complete waste of space and time

Review # 2 was written on 2013-11-06 00:00:00 Neil Oldfield I have read this book during my studying for IT/Networking. I took it as a reference in many coerces, it gives you a clear and a sophisticated way of explaining networking and layers and how they work. Highly recommend