Holistic Guidance - Telecommunications: A Beginner's Guide
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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 621 EAN: 9780072193565 ISBN: 0072193565 Label: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 544 Publication Date: 2001-12-11 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media Studio: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media
Written by the seasoned telecommunications training experts at Hill Associates, this book provides you with a step-by-step introduction to the industry, and includes practical hands-on tips and techniques on implementing key technologies. Covers emerging topics such as optical networking, wireless communication, and convergence, and contains blueprints that help bring the technology to life.
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Customer Rating: Summary: real, down to earth...guide Comment: I just started to read this book. Very good book...I have few books on TCP/IP... and Telephone Infrastructure..If you want to know more about Telephone networking, and protocols...look no further... Customer Rating: Summary: Aquaintance to the world of telecommunication Comment: It is idle time for understanding a management will allow you to accustom to a developing area of telecommunications quickly. Written by skilled experts of company Hill Associates - the leading company on preparation of technical experts in the field of telecommunications, this book contains the technical information necessary for understanding and application of key technologies. Customer Rating: Summary: best intro to voice and data communications Comment: If you only can read one book on the subject, this is it.
Written by experts in the field of computer networking and telco engineers it gives clear explanation of POTS infrastructure and data networking fundamentals, including the internet architecture. A lot of pages are devoted to "dying" technologies, such as X.25, ATM, and frame relay. Hot topics such as TCP/IP and Ethernet don't get enough coverage in my opinion. Even so, the book deserves 5 stars because even though it may not have everything, it does cover a lot and it does it well and with some sense of humor. There is no "filler" in this book. Besides, other books on the subject are ether too light (Dodd and Golenievsky), too technical (Freeman and Minoli) or
too wordy and biased towards telco point of view (Bates and Horak)
I must say I liked Horak's "Communications systems and networks" too -- it has a lot of complimentary and interesting details, historical notes and is written in a warm and loving style. I recommend you to read it before Hill's book if you are really interested in telecommunications.
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