Part of the best-selling How It Works series, How Networks Work is a stunning, full-color illustrated title on networking technology. Each spread provides the reader with the information necessary to understand the fundamentals of connectivity, and each detailed illustration is labeled and annotated in easy to comprehend terms, helping the reader cut through the difficult vocabulary of the networking world. In this excursion through the inner-workings of all the network pieces, you¿ll see the inside of a modem and the purpose of each component, how a wiring hub fits into a network operating system, how data goes in and out of a network interface card (NIC), and much more.