BITCNE: Data Communications and Networking Resources

Some resources in the field of Data Communications and Computer Networking which are accessible through the World Wide Web. Note that there may be some link rot in this page.

• Telecommunications Information.
• Networking: Overview of information available
• Cisco's Internetworking Technology Overview is an excellent resource.
• John's Telecom & Networking Resources. Lots of pointers to good stuff here.
• Internet Engineering Curriculum Main Page has lots of pointers to tutorial information on Internet Technology and applications.
• The World Wide Web Consortium is the best place to discover anything you want to know about the technologies involved in the World Wide Web.
• The Globewide Network Academy, where you can find, among other goodies, an Introduction To The Internet on-line hypertext teaching course which shows you how to use the Internet to your best advantage.
• If you're more interested in the technology of the Internet, there's a neat Internet Encyclopedia by Brent Baccala that could be useful. It also has a nice set of pointers to sources of information. You can also find this here.
• The Simple Web - network management site, documenting an SNMP implementation project in The Netherlands, with pointers to other sites with SNMP information, and other networking-related topics.
• The TU Braunschweig (in Germany) Network Management project has lots of information on SNMP and related topics, and has pointers to the home page of tkined, which they developed.
• Related to SNMP (obviously), the ASN.1 home page is here.
• For information specifically related to TCP/IP, check out Uri's TCP/IP Resources List. Nice to notice that our subject (BITCNE), as well as our companion subject Data Communications (BITDCO) are both referenced there!
• Data Communications magazine has not a bad set of Tech Tutorials.
• The Ethernet: Access to Ethernet Information server is also available via the "Networking: Overview of information available" server mentioned above, but this is the direct path to it.
• Another slightly different source is Fred's Cool Network Info, which may have just the obscure fact that you're looking for.
• For the firewalls and network security lecture sequence, these links to some firewall pages might be useful.
• Frame Relay Tutorial from CommWeb.
• International standards bodies
• A few pointers to sites with cryptography resources
• BSD Sockets: A Quick And Dirty Primer by Jim Frost.
• This PGP page could be useful for assignment 3. There's also a commercial PGP site
• A few more useful URLS to do with WWW security (this is an older list, and may not be entirely current)
• Robert Minch's IS380 Data Comms course at Boise State University is a business oriented subject with some similarity to the Bendigo subject INT20CN.
• Dr. Anthony A. Verstraete's MIS Web site at Penn State University could have some useful references for the management-related aspects of computer networking and data communications.
• If you've got a spare moment, check out Zen and the Art Of The Internet to see how the Internet worked way back before the Web. Written in 1992.

• The Micromuse company in England has a nice set of pointers to many, many networking resources on the Internet.
• Dr Roger Clarke at the Australian National University has a page on the topic of Electronic Commerce, which will be very useful for Computing 205 and IT8.
• The VICNET web site has a pointer to businesses in Victoria which are using the Internet. Point your browser at Business In Victoria And On The Net for lots of good pointers.
• The Network Book is a new resource at Columbia University which covers material mainly relevant to Computer Hetworks, but may have some good stuff for Data Communications as well. The URL http://www.cs.columbia.edu/networks98/ might be more up-to-date.
• There's a nice page called Needle in a CyberStack: The InfoFinder with a good index of "information directories.
• CPT240
• Of course, some people aren't aware that IP is really an acronym for Interchange Pizza :-)