Telecommunications and Data Communications Handbook - Brossura

Horak, Ray

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ISBN 10: 0470041412 ISBN 13: 9780470041413

Casa editrice: Wiley-Interscience, 2007

Riassunto

If you really need to understand telecommunications, you must own a copy of Telecommunications and Data Communications Handbook by Ray Horak. A well-researched and comprehensive survey of telecom and datacom technologies and services, from the most basic to the most complex, the book begins with basic concepts and definitions and marches through the full ranges of transmission media and voice, data, and video systems, networks, standards and protocols. The author sets the technologies in context, providing a good level of detail on the origin and evolution of fiber optics, cellular radio, digital carrier systems, TCP/IP, and the Internet, as examples. The emphasis is just right, with plenty of ink devoted to broadband LAN, MAN, and WAN technologies such as 3G, 802.11g/n, ADSL, BPL, CWDM and DWDM, PON, and WiMAX. The author devotes the final chapter to tracking the origins, evolution, and current status of U.S. telecom regulation through key legislative, judicial and agency events. Back matter includes a helpful list of more than 1,000 industry acronyms and initialisms and an excellent and thoroughly complete index, which is the mark of an author with an appreciation for the reader. (Information is useless if you can't find it when you need it.) Ray Horak writes in a unique plain-English, commonsense style that makes the book an easy read for a technology book. Also, he liberally sprinkles his trademarked (or, more correctly, copyrighted) wry sense of humor throughout, so you will find yourself smiling and chuckling from time to time.

While Telecommunications and Data Communications Handbook is written for a reasonably astute academic and professional readership of engineers, analysts, regulators, attorneys, and other telecom professionals, Horak develops each topic in plain English and in such a commonsense and patient manner that the book is equally informative and useful to a student or relative newcomer to telecommunications. Among the many of specific technology topics are included the following:

" T/E/J-Carrier Systems
" Fiber Optics
o MMF and SMF
o CWDM and DWDM
o EDFAs and Raman Amplification
o Passive Optical Network (PON)
o SONET/SDH
" Wireless
o 802.11a/b/g/n
o Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO)
o 802.16 and WiMAX
o Bluetooth
o ZigBee
o Cellular, including 2.5G and 3G
" Broadband over Power Line (BPL)
" E-mail and Instant Messaging (IM)
" Storage Area Networks (SANs)
" Digital Subscriber Line (DSL): ADSL, HDSL, SHDSL, SDSL, and VDSL
" CATV Networks and Modems
" Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), including IP PBX and IP Centrex
" Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) vs. H.323

Published by Wiley-Interscience (September 2007)
791 pages, $99.95
ISBN-10: 0470041412
ISBN-13: 978-0470041413

The perfect companion to this book is Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary, also written by Ray Horak in 2007. It is a comprehensive telecommunications dictionary of more than 4,600 terms critical to understanding voice, data, video, and multimedia communications system and network technologies, applications, and regulation. An instant classic that contains none of the fluff found in competing works, Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary is a carefully researched and absolutely reliable source. As such, it is the one and only telecom dictionary you will need.

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L'autore

Ray Horak held management and executive management positions with Southwestern Bell, Continental Telephone Company (CONTEL), and Communications Group Inc. An independent consultant and popular speaker, trainer, author, columnist, and writer, he is the author of the bestselling Communications Systems and Networks, published most recently by Wiley and now in its third edition. Mr. Horak teaches seminars around the world on a variety of telecommunications subjects. He also has considerable experience as a consulting technical expert and expert witness in litigation involving patents, copyrights, trademarks, and other intellectual property matters.

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A practical, accessible survey of telecommunications and data communications services and technologies

Finally, there is a commonsense guide to telecommunications and data communications that non-engineers can understand. Popular author Ray Horak provides comprehensive, up-to-date information in plain English, instead of confusing technotalk. Recent developments covered include:

• 802.16 and WiMAX

• Passive Optical Network (PON)

• 802.11g/n

• Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO)

• Broadband over Power Line (BPL)

• Instant Messaging

• ZigBee

In addition, Telecommunications and Data Communications Handbook expands on topics of increasing interest, including:

• Fiber Optics

• Storage Area Networks (SANs)

• Digital Subscriber Line (DSL)

• CATV Networks

• Wireless, including Bluetooth

• Cellular, including 2.5G and 3G, photos, video, and ring tones and ring-back tones

• Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), including IP PBX and IP Centrex

• Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) vs. H.323

Complete with a discussion of the current regulatory and business environments, including divestiture and revestiture as well as mergers and acquisitions, this is the ideal reference for non-engineering professionals in the end-user, carrier, content or service provider, manufacturing, regulatory, or financial communities.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Wiley-Interscience
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0470041412
• ISBN 13: 9780470041413
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 791