Telecommunication System Engineering
4th Edition
Published on 31. July 2015
1024 pages
978-0-471-72620-3 (ISBN)
Description
From the review of the Third Edition:
"A must for anyone in volved in the practical aspects of the telecommunications industry."
--CHOICE
* Outlines the expertise essential to the successful operation and design of every type of telecommunications networks in use today
* New edition is fully revised and expanded to present authoritative coverage of the important developments that have taken place since the previous edition was published
* Includes new chapters on hot topics such as cellular radio, asynchronous transfer mode, broadband technologies, and network management
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ROGER L. FREEMAN is founder and Principal of Roger Freeman Associates, independent consultants in telecommunications, specializing in system engineering in the United States, Canada, and Hispanic America. In the course of over forty-five years' experience in telecommunications operations, maintenance, and engineering, he has served as principal engineer for advanced system planning at the Raytheon Company, technical manager for ITT Marine Europe, and regional planning expert for the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), among other positions. In addition to the three previous editions of Telecommunication System Engineering, Mr. Freeman has written six other books on the subject of telecommunications engineering: Reference Manual for Telecommunications Engineering, Third Edition; Fiber-Optic Systems for Telecommunications; Fundamentals of Telecommunications; Radio System Design for Telecommunications, Second Edition; Practical Data Communications, Second 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.
Content
Preface xxiii
Chapter 1 Basic Telephony 1
Chapter 2 Local Networks 41
Chapter 3 Switching in an Analog Environment 73
Chapter 4 Signaling for Analog Telephone Networks 111
Chapter 5 Introduction to Transmission for Telephony 139
Chapter 6 Long-Distance Networks 157
Chapter 7 The Design of Long-Distance Links 185
Chapter 8 Digital Transmission Systems 261
Chapter 9 Digital Switching and Networks 317
Chapter 10 Introduction to Data Communications 365
Chapter 11 Data Networks and their Operation 409
Chapter 12 Voice-Over IP 483
Chapter 13 Local Area Networks 501
Chapter 14 Integrated Services Digital Networks 565
Chapter 15 Speeding Things Up with Frame Relay 603
Chapter 16 The Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) and Broadband ISDN 631
Chapter 17 CCITT Signaling System No. 7 681
Chapter 18 Wireless and Cellular/Mobile Radio 737
Chapter 19 Last-Mile Broadband Connectivity and Wireless Local Loop (WLL) 805
Chapter 20 Optical Networking 835
Chapter 21 Network Management 871
Appendix 1 Acronyms and Abbreviations 911
Index 931
