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Title: Good book for starting out in networking
Review: This is a great book if you are starting out in the computer networking field. It is also a good compliment to "Computer Networks" by Andrew Tanenbaum. This is not a book for someone well versed with the basic concepts as it lacks the depth and details.This book looks at the networking concepts from the software engineer/ computer science perspective rather than computer engineer/ electrical engineer one.It explains many of the concepts with very simple everyday analogies and the simple language makes it very readable. The book does miss out on many emerging technologies, like sensor networks, mesh networks, etc.Also the lower OSI layers like physical, MAC lack the details and information worthy of a basic book. The application, transport and network layers are covered well since this a primarily a software engineer's look at networking.Overall, its a good book for beginers(specially for computer science) but not for intermediate or experts in the field .
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