Telecommunications crash course / by Steven Shepard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shepard, Steven, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Telecommunication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education LLC., c2014.

Summary:

"Completely revised bestseller, updated to cover the global Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT) sector and "Anytime, Anywhere, Any Device" technologyTelecommunications Crash Course, Third Edition fully addresses the crossover that is taking place between the telecom, technology, and media sectors. Today it's almost impossible for an industry professional to work in the world of telecom without also having a significant amount of knowledge about the IT/technology and media industries. As the boundaries between these markets fade, a single, multi-faceted industry is emerging. Written for decision-makers, this practical, up-to-date guide provides a broad and comprehensive overview of today's tech world that will help you make informed decisions about technology directions, investments, and rollout strategies. Provides unique insight into the increasingly converged telecom, media, and technology industries Offers strong focus on the business implications of TMT technologies"-- Publisher description.

Contents:

A. Dedication

B. Foreword

C. Introduction?and an admonition

African journey

Structure of the book

Acknowledgments

1. The changing technoscape

The telecom sector

The technology sector

The media sector

Interdependencies

The changing competitive paradigm

Some of the money?

Closing thoughts

Chapter one questions

2. The standards that guide us

Terminology

Data communications

Data communications standards: where do they come from?

The international telecommunications union

The telecommunications standardization sector

The telecommunications standardization bureau

The radio bureau

The development sector

The standards themselves

The standards

Other important organizations

Chapter two questions

3. Data communications protocols

Data communications systems and functions

The science of communications

Data communications networks

Binary arithmetic review

The network

Network access

Miscellaneous additional terms

Network transport

The many flavors of transport

Transport channels

Analog versus digital signaling: dispensing with myths

Digital signaling

Combining signaling techniques for higher bit rates

The internet: what is it?

The world wide web (www)

Internet timeline (1960?2013)

The open systems interconnection reference model

The willie sutton story

Back to the model

Layer by layer

Esperanto

Layer 7: the application layer

Layer 6: the presentation layer

Layer 5: the session layer

Layer 4: the transport layer

Layer 3: the network layer

The data link layer

The physical layer

Osi summary

Other protocol stacks

Chapter summary

Chapter three questions

4. Telephony

Miracle on second avenue

The history of telephony

Not to be forgotten: cable

The telephone network

The modern telephone system

In the belly of the beast

Network topology

Subscriber loop carrier

Into the central office

Interoffice trunking

Conserving bandwidth: voice transport

Beginnings: d1 framing

The synchronous optical network

Sonet evolution

The sonet frame

Sonet bandwidth

The sts-n frame

The sts-nc frame

Overhead modifications in sts-nc frames

Transporting sub-rate payloads: virtual tributaries

Creating virtual tributaries.

Creating the virtual tributary superframe

Sonet synchronization

One final thought: next-generation sonet

Virtual concatenation

Link capacity adjustment scheme

Generic framing procedure

Sonet summary

Sdh nomenclature

The sdh frame

Stm frame overhead

Overhead details

Voice digitization

The nature of voice

Multiplexing

Alternative digitization techniques

Adaptive differential pulse code modulation

Enter the modern world: voice-over ip

Voip versus internet telephony: an important distinction

Voip evolution

Skype

Carrier class ip voice

Winning with voip

Ip-enabled call centers

Integrating the pbx

An important aside: billing as a critical service

Voip supporting protocols

A final thought: network management for qos

Summary

Chapter four questions

5. The byzantine world of regulation

Regulation challenge numbers 1: net neutrality

Regulation challenge numbers 2: broadband stimulus

Technology and regulation

Current issues in regulation

Life, liberty, and broadband

Chapter five questions

6. Premises technologies

The computer

Enter the pc

Lan basics

Lan characteristics

Local area network access schemes

Logical lan design

Other relevant technologies

Wi-fi today

Wi-fi in action

Wi-fi security

An aside: mobility versus ubiquity

Zigbee

The final three: firewire, thunderbolt, and usb

Usb pd

Chapter six questions

7. Content and media

The world of multimedia

Setting the stage

Application-programmer interface

It's all about the ecosystem

Still images

The arrival of compression

Google glass

Why this matters

Video

Is that a horse ? or a tree?

Modern video technology

Component formats

Digital video

The dichotomy of quality of experience

Video capture and encoding technologies

The video process

What the market wants, the market gets: compression

Television standards

Video summary

The world of music

Steve jobs' influence

Cracking the code

Final thoughts

Chapter seven questions.

8. Access technologies

Marketplace realities

Integrated services digital network

Pbx applications

Digital subscriber line

Dsl market issues

Provider challenges

Electrical disturbances

Physical impairments

Load coils and bridged taps

Solutions

Cable-based access technologies

Playing in the broadband game

The cable network

The ever-changing cable network

Data over cable service interface specification

Wireless access technologies

Radio's evolution

A touch of technology

Improving the model

The spectrum battles heat up

Cellular telephony

Ok, but how does it work?

Access methods

Access evolution

Data enhancements to gsm

Generalized packet radio service

The reality

The wireless data conundrum

The road to 3g?and beyond

Dod and rfid

Network impacts

Rfid: what's next?

Satellite technology

Satellite services: what's the catch?

Other wireless access solutions

Worldwide interoperability for microwave access

The future of wimax

One last topic: machine-to-machine communications

The internet of ?

Machine-to-machine applications

Concerns and issues

Chapter eight questions

9. Transport technologies

Point-to-point technologies

The switching hierarchy

Many forms of packet switching

Optical networking

The origins of optical fiber

Optical fiber

Scattering problems

Optical amplification

Optical receivers

Modes: an analogy

Why does it matter?

Optical fundamentals summary

Dense wavelength division multiplexing

Optical switching and routing

Mems alternatives

An aside: a trip to the wave venture

Chapter nine questions

10. The ip takeover

The internet's early days

Arpanet growing pains

Managing the internet

Naming conventions in the internet

The tcp/ip protocol: what it is and how it works

Ip header fields

Understanding ip addresses

Ip address classes

Subnet masking

Adding to the alphabet soup: cidr, dhcp, nat, and pat

Addressing in ip: the domain name system

Early address resolution schemes

Routing in ip networks

Ip version 6

Ipv6 header

Transport layer protocols

The internet control message protocol

The application layer

Multiprotocol label switching

Chapter ten questions

11. The it mandate

Change in the wind

The changing face of it

Tracking the trends and the shaping forces

Cloud

A final word: colocation

Machine-to-machine and near field communications

The triad of trust

On to the trends

An aside: html5 and why it matters

Consumerization of it bring your own device

The new customer

Catering to the generations: watching the market grow up

The cycle of life

Baby boomers

Generation x

Millennials

The bright side of millennials

An example: telus

Motivating millennials

Conclusion

The changing face of work

Chapter eleven questions

A. Closing thoughts

B. Appendix

Photo credits

Bibliography

Web resources and links

Steve's learning resources

What i read

Authors

Podcasts

Books

Common industry acronyms

Dr. Steven Shepard.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on cover image and table of contents, viewed on Oct. 24, 2014.

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9780071832663 (Print ISBN)

0071832661 (Print ISBN)

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