If your network administrator has this book on his or her desk, fire him or her immediately. However, if you are a corporate administrator or small business owner who needs to be able to talk with your network geeks, then this is a useful book to consider. Slowly, most computer users gain knowledge about the computer and learn to tweak the computer, changing the wallpaper on the desktop to look like your youngest child, or optimize settings to improve memory allocation. But what do you know about cable or routers or hubs or switches. That information is in this book.
Networks are like computers in that a new language is needed to talk about it.
DOS, autoexec.bat, dot INI files, and the like. With networks it's ATM, T1, token ring, and OC-3. Networks are also like your desktop computer in that no matter what you buy today, it is likely to be a maximum capacity in a few years. The demands to transfer data show no signs of letting up. Just like your computer's hard drive gets full, the demand for bandwidth soon results in data collisions and a slow network.