Many people make excuses for not reading, professing that they learn better by doing. It can take you places you can't get to in any other way, and for most people, it's an absolute prerequisite to successful hands-on experience. Each semester on the first night of my college class on LANs, I make it a point to dish out the jargon in a big way. I've also been known to have students read a few articles early in the semester that are way over their heads. The networking field has a basic vocabulary that must be mastered, and reading and study is the best way to achieve this mastery.
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In most instances, the single greatest reason for failure to master a foreign language is the failure to learn basic vocabulary. You get by the first year or two, locking just enough information into short-term memory the night before the exam. But sooner or later, it catches up with you. When the time comes to converse with someone, you're reaching for the dictionary. We've compiled information on red hot content delivery networks from Akamai, Cidera, Digital Island, and iBeam.