This week’s sneak peek of a Cisco Press book is a chapter from Cisco Networking Simplified, 2nd Edition, by Neil Anderson, 
This is the Cisco Press blurb about the book:
Now 100% updated for the latest technologies, this is today’s easiest, most visual guide to Cisco networking. Even if you’ve never set up or managed a network, Cisco Networking Simplified, Second Edition, helps you quickly master the concepts you need to understand. Its full-color diagrams and clear explanations give you the big picture: how each important networking technology works, what it can do for you, and how they all fit together. The authors illuminate networking from the smallest LANs to the largest enterprise infrastructures, offering practical introductions to key issues ranging from security to availability, mobility to virtualization.
Go here for the free chapter: Part I: How computers communicate.
Mark your calendar for March 25, 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. ET, for a live online text with Neil Anderson.
More free Cisco Press book chapters here.
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