This book integrates business issues involving the telecommunications industry using Porter’s Competitive Forces and Supply Chain models, to technical principles of the inner-workings of data communication and telecommunications Some issues covered include: computer timing in distributed systems, multiplexing, circuit- and packet-switching, озсяш and protocol architecture These technical issues are prefaced with an overview of client-server and three-layer architecture The book concludes with material on the web and the standards and regulation processes, facing firms in this industry.  В изданииISBN 0595203485.