Telecommunications Essentials, Second Edition: The Complete Global Source
by Lillian Goleniewski

Telecommunications Essentials, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive overview of the rapidly evolving world of telecommunications. Providing an in-depth, one-stop reference for anyone wanting to get up to speed on the $1.2 trillion telecommunications industry, this book not only covers the basic building blocks but also introduces the most current information on new technologies. This edition features new sections on IP telephony, VPNs, NGN architectures, broadband access alternatives, and broadband wireless applications, and it describes the technological and political forces at play in the world of telecommunications around the globe.

Topics include

Communications fundamentals, from traditional transmission media, to establishing communicationschannels, to the PSTN

Data networking and the Internet, including the basics of data communications, local area networking, wide area networking, and the Internet and IP infrastructures

Next-generation networks, including the applications, characteristics, and requirements of the new generation of networks that are being built to quickly and reliably carry the ever-increasing network traffic, focusing on IP services, network infrastructure, optical networking, and broadband access alternatives

Wireless networking, including the basics of wireless networking and the technologies involved in WWANs, WMANs, WLANs, and WPANs

Technologies covered include

IP protocols, including IPv4 and IPv6, IP QoS, and NSIS

IP telephony, including VoIP, softswitches, SIP, H.323, Megaco and MGCP, and ENUM

Virtual private networks, including IPsec, BGP-MPLS, VPWS and VPLS VPNs, and VPN security mechanisms

Digital video and TV standards, including DTV, HDTV, ATSC, DVB, and ISDB

Convergence and NGNs, IMS, MSPPs, QoS, and MPLS

Optical networking, including WDM/DWDM/CWDM, ROADMs, optical switches, OTN, ASON and ASTN, GigE/10GigE/EFM and RPR, and GMPLS

Broadband access, including DSL, DOCSIS, PacketCable and OpenCable, FTTx and PONs, broadband PLT, and HANs

3G/4G/5G networks, including WCDMA, HSDPA/HSDPA/HSDPO, OFDM, and MIMO

Broadband wireless standards, including Wi-Fi, WiMax, WiBro, Bluetooth, UWB, and RFID

As an added bonus, Telecommunications Essentials, Second Edition, is augmented by a dynamic online telecommunications learning center, www.telecomessentials.com/learningcenter. The Telecom Essentials Learning Center includes access to self-tests and quizzes to put your knowledge to the test, links to hundreds of Web sites and educational resources that help build your telecommunications knowledge, and a comprehensive glossary of telecommunications terms.

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Publisher: Addison-Wesley
Page Count (est.): 865
ISBN10: 0321427610
ISBN13: 9780321427618
Cover: Paperback
Pub Date: 10/12/2006