Fundamentals of Telecommunications
1st Edition
Published on 11. October 2004
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Paperback/Softback
676 pages
978-0-471-70961-9 (ISBN)
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With the rapid growth and increasing vitality of the telecommunications field, many of today's professionals-from marketing and sales personnel to engineers and scientists find themselves interacting with telecommunication equipment and encountering technical terms with which they are entirely unfamiliar. This excellent, comprehensive introduction gives readers a straightforward overview of the science and terminology of telecommunications so they can quickly take advantage of the vast range of newly-available technology. The author begins with the basics and covers all areas of interest in a non-technical manner.
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ROGER L. FREEMAN is founder and principal of Roger Freeman Associates, independent consultants in telecommunications, specializing in system engineering in Hispanic America. In the course of more than forty-five years of experience in telecommunications operations, maintenance, and engineering, he has served as principal engineer for advanced system planning at Raytheon Company, technical manager of ITT Marine, Europe, and regional planning expert for the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Mr. Freeman is the author of Reference Manual for Telecommunications Engineering, Third/Fourth Edition; Radio System Design for Telecommunications, Second Edition; Practical Data Communications, Second Edition; Telecommunication System Engineering, Third/Fourth Edition; and Telecommunications Transmission Handbook, Fourth Edition-all published by Wiley. A senior life member of the IEEE, Roger Freeman has lectured at numerous professional conferences and published widely in international telecommunications journals. He gives telecommunications seminars at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Content
Preface; Chapter 1. Introductory Concepts; Chapter 2. Signals Convey Intelligence; Chapter 3. Quality of Service and Telecommunication Impairments; Chapter 4. Transmission and Switching: Cornerstones of a Network; Chapter 5. Transmission Aspects of Voice Telephony; Chapter 6. Digital Networks; Chapter 7. Signaling; Chapter 8. Local and Long-Distance Networks; Chapter 9. Concepts in Transmission Transport; Chapter 10. Data Communications; Chapter 11. Enterprise Networks I: Local Area Networks; Chapter 12. Enterprise Networks II: Wide Area Networks; Chapter 13. CCITT Signaling System No. 7; Chapter 14. Image Communications; Chapter 15. Community Antenna Television (Cable Television); Chapter 16. Cellular and PCS Radio Systems; Chapter 17. Advanced Broadband Digital Transport Formats; Chapter 18. Asynchronous Transfer Mode; Appendix A: Review of Fundamentals of Electricity With Telecommunication Applications; Appendix B: Review of Mathematics for Telecommunication Applications; Appendix C: Learning Decibels and Their Applications; Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations; Index