Voice and Data Communications Handbook
3rd Edition
Published on 1. December 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
904 pages
978-0-07-212276-3 (ISBN)
Description
This is a comprehensive introduction to the world of telecommunications that aims to be of value to communications professionals meeting the requirements of proliferating PC/LAN networks.
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Series
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
400 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 189 mm
Weight
1970 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-212276-3 (9780072122763)
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Content
The history of telecommunications; voice characteristics; the telephone network; the telephone set; analog versus digital transmission; carriers; lines versus trunks; traffic engineering; equipment - private branch exchanges; key telephone systems; voice processing; computer to telephony integration (CTI); data communications; Ti and T-carrier systems; the open systems interconnect model (OSI); Internet; Intranet; packet switching technologies (X.25); local area networks (LANs); Ethernet; token ring LANs; baseband versus broadband; fibre-distributed data interface; switched multimegabit data services; frame relay; integrated services digital network; asynchronous transfer mode; cellular and personal communications systems; radio systems; light systems; video conferencing; finances for telecommunications; facsimile; cabling systems.