Irwin Handbook of Telecommunications is an authoritative how-to solutions manual for every telecommunications management question.

Features:

• Details new concerns regarding wireless networks and security
• Covers new wiring standards and changes to the National Electric Code, evolving Ethernet and Local Area Network (LAN) standards
• Addresses the transition toward converged voice and data

Contents

• A Brief History of Telecommunications
• Introduction to the Public Switched Telephone Network
• Introduction to Data Communications
• Data Communications Principles
• Pulse-Code Modulation
• Data Communications Protocols
• Outside Plant
• Access Technologies
• Structured Cabling Systems
• Local Area Networks
• Network Equipment
• The PSTN and Quality Requirements
• Circuit Switching Systems
• The Integrated Services Digital Network
• Softswitches
• Optical Networking
• Microwave Radio Systems
• Satellite Communications
• Mobile, Cellular, and PCS Radio Systems
• Wireless Communications Systems
• Video Systems
• Station Equipment
• Customer Premise Switching System Features
• TDM Customer-Premise Switching Systems
• IP Customer Premise Equipment
• Automatic Media Distribution Systems
• Voice Processing Systems
• Electronic Messaging Systems
• Facsimile Systems
• Enterprise Networks
• Metropolitan Area Networks
• Wide Area Networks
• Frame Relay
• Asynchronous Transfer Mode
• IP Networks
• Network Testing
• Network Management Systems
• Telecommunications Convergence
• Future Developments in Telecommunications

Index

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