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The essential guide to telecommunications / Annabel Z. Dodd.
LIBRA TK5101 .D54 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dodd, Annabel Z.
- Series:
- Essential guide series (Prentice-Hall, inc.)
- Prentice Hall PTR essential guide series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Telecommunication.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 594 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Upper Saddle River, NJ : Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, [2005]
- Summary:
- The Essential Guide to Telecommunications is the world's #1 nontechnical guide to telecommunications. Writing in plain English, leading telecom consultant Annabel Dodd has completely updated this fourth edition to reflect the vast changes in the industry. Dodd explores the new competitive forces, critical industry issues, and important technologies that impact network security, reliability, and the pace of innovation.
- Contents:
- Part I Fundamentals and Voice Over IP
- The Transition to Digital 5
- Adding Meaning to Signals-Codes and Bits 9
- Measuring Speed and Capacity 11
- Improving Utilization-Compression and Multiplexing 14
- Interoperability-Protocols and Architectures 19
- Types of Networks-LANs, MANs, and WANs 21
- 2 VoIP Systems, Circuit Switched PBXs and Cabling 45
- Telephone Systems-Voice over IP, PBXs, and Centrex Systems 48
- IP PBXs for the Enterprise 49
- Advanced Applications for Telephone Systems 74
- ACDs-Increasing Call Center Efficiency 85
- Media: Fiber and Unshielded Twisted Pair Copper 94
- Part II Industry Overview and Public Networks
- 3 Industry Overview 111
- The Bell System after the 1984 Divestiture 114
- The Emergence of Local Competition Prior to 1996 119
- The Telecommunications Act of 1996 125
- Post Telecommunications Act of 1996 Developments 126
- Impact of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 127
- State of the Industry ... Key Segments 128
- CLECs-A Dwindling Industry Segment 135
- Intermodal Competition-Cable TV, Wireless, and Utilities 140
- Regulatory Issues 150
- 4 VoIP, the Public Switched Telephone Network, and Signaling 165
- Convergence in Public Networks 168
- Voice Over Broadband for Residential Consumers 189
- Document Sharing and Online Webconferencing 193
- The Public Switched Telephone Network 194
- Switched Services-Local and Long Distance Calling 196
- "The Last Mile" or Access Networks 199
- Signaling-The Glue that Holds the PSTN Together 213
- 5 VPNs and Specialized Network Services 221
- Virtual Private Networks-Remote Access and Interoffice Connections 226
- Frame Relay-A Shared Wide Area Network Service 236
- Dedicated, Private Lines 240
- T-1-24 Paths and T-3-672 Paths Over One Telephone Circuit 248
- ISDN-Integrated Services Digital Network 253
- Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)-An Interim Technology or a Vehicle for Video and IP? 259
- Gigabit Ethernet 269
- ATM-Asynchronous Transfer Mode 274
- SONET-Synchronous Optical Network 278
- Part III Advanced Technologies, Cable TV Networks, and the Internet
- 6 Entertainment, Cable TV, and Last-Mile Fiber Systems 289
- Cable Multiple System Operators (MSOs) 291
- Direct Broadcast Satellite TV-Reaching Customers Wirelessly 308
- Broadcast, Over-the-Air Television 309
- Digital Delivery-Entertainment over the Internet 317
- Digital Radio-Subscription Versus Advertising Support 319
- Passive Optical Networking 324
- 7 The Internet 333
- The Evolution of the Internet 336
- Messaging and the Growth of Spam 346
- Portals, Search Engines, and E-commerce 362
- Electronic Commerce 368
- Intranets and Extranets 378
- Part IV Wireless Service
- 8 Mobile Services 387
- The Development of Cellular Networks 391
- Spectrum and Rights to Airwaves 399
- Mobile Carriers 407
- The structure of Second Generation Digital Mobile Networks 420
- Evolving to Third Generation Packet Networks 437
- Mobile Commerce, Enhanced Services, and Operating Systems 458
- Specialized Mobile Radio-Slow-Speed Packet Data and Push-to-Talk 463
- Satellites and Paging 465
- 9 Wi-Fi, Wireless Broadband, Sensor Networks, and Personal Area Networks 469
- 802.11 Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs) 472
- Broadband Wireless Access 501
- Personal Area Networks (PANs) 510
- Sensor Networks-The 802.15.4 Standard 519.
- Notes:
- Previous ed.: 2002.
- Includes bibliographical references (page 551) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0131487256
- OCLC:
- 60559881
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