Journey to the Center of the Internet: Now Showing in 3-D (Book & CD)

Jules Verne watch out! Now you can take a virtual tour to the centre of a computer network.If you need to know the difference between a router and a bridge, or a WAN and a LAN, where do you start? Journey to the Center of the Network: Now Showing in 3D is a truely innovative book and CD package. It introduces the reader to the highly complicated subject of computer networking. Covering history, protocols, hardware, servers, switches, bridges, routers and discusses implementation issues, costs and network limitations. Readers will be able to experience a computer network from the inside out using the innovative 3D imaging software from Periscope3, included on the CD. It allows readers to view pieces of a network from various angles ranges and see how the hardware interacts with the network as a whole. CD includes 3D Network Discovery Lab from Periscope3 Allows readers to explore the critical hardware components of a modern networkSaves time and money as a training tool Unrivalled web-based support. Readers can receive up-to-the minute links, white papers, and analysis for two years at solutions@syngress.com

Jules Verne watch out! Now you can take a virtual tour to the centre of a computer network.

If you need to know the difference between a router and a bridge, or a WAN and a LAN, where do you start? Journey to the Center of the Network: Now Showing in 3D is a truely innovative book and CD package. It introduces the reader to the highly complicated subject of computer networking. Covering history, protocols, hardware, servers, switches, bridges, routers and discusses implementation issues, costs and network limitations. Readers will be able to experience a computer network from the inside out using the innovative 3D imaging software from Periscope3, included on the CD. It allows readers to view pieces of a network from various angles ranges and see how the hardware interacts with the network as a whole.

CD includes 3D Network Discovery Lab from Periscope3
Allows readers to explore the critical hardware components of a modern network Saves time and money as a training tool Unrivalled web-based support. Readers can receive up-to-the minute links, white papers, and analysis for two years at solutions@syngress.com

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For those who find information more digestible if it's couched in a novelistic techno-tale, this book/CD-ROM package was prepared by a computer topics writer and an animator for newbies with a need for depth of knowledge beyond basic pointing and clicking. Coverage includes the history of the internet, how a net connection works, domain names, ways to connect, how alternative connections work, security, newsgroups, and how to search for information, among other topics. The CD-ROM contains an electronic version of the book with a series of animation clips. The book itself should be in every collection on the printing craft, as a perfect demonstration of incompetent graphic design. The cute designer has placed half screen images over the printingthe images are unrecognizable, and the text legibility is badly corrupted. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Do you like being bored for several hours at a time? Then find another book. Do you like to learn by reading endless techno-jargon? Well, there are lots of books in the computer section you're standing in right now that will help you nap (either that or you can use them as a doorstop). Consider yourself a dummy? Then you'll be over-stimulated by this book. What's that you say? You don't like vanilla ice cream? You'd rather have some fun? Want a little E-N-T-E-R-T-A-I-N-M-E-N-T with your learning? Then take a Journey to the Center of the Internet. Animator Jesse Flores and author Pamela Rice Hahn have teamed up to create a brilliant techno-tale in the spirit of the classic science fiction novel. While Journey to the Center of the Internet is perfect for the easily bored teenager, it may also be appropriate for adults who click through 500 cable channels in less than one minute or who like to read while driving their car (just kidding).