Telecom & Datacom Systems, Telecommunications Technology, General & Miscellaneous Networking & Telecommunications

Networks and Telecommunications

Name: Networks and Telecommunications
Author: Martin P. Clark
ISBN: 9780471973461

by Martin P. Clark

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Overview

The core sections deal with the fundamentals of telecoms networks, running and setting up networks, and running a business based on telecommunications have all been significantly updated. The expanding emerging technologies section places an emphasis on SDH Synchronous Digital Hierarchy and SONET Synchronous Optical Network, ATM Asynchronous Transfer Mode, B-ISDN Broadland Integrated Services Digital Network and associated broadland and multimedia services: video conferencing, video on demand, etc., and the Telecommunications Management Network. Two new major sections on modern voice networks and modern data networks are also included. These address state-of-the-art technologies from intelligent networks, signalling system 7 and mobile networks to packet switching, frame relay and email.

About the Author, Martin P. Clark

About the author Martin Clark spent eight years in the international network planning department of British Telecom until he became Group Telecommunications Manager with Grand Metropolitan in 1989. Since 1991 he has worked in Germany, setting up: Cable & Wireless' pan-European Managed Data Network, Deutsche Bank's corporate network and the carrier network for Mannesmann, Germany's new public telecommunications transmission company. Recently he has been working with the wireless ATM company, Netro, and practising as a freelance consultant. He is also a Chartered European Engineer and a member of the IEE.

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New edition of a text expanded to include information on changes in data, broadband, and multimedia networks since the release of the first edition in 1990. Topics include the fundamentals of telecom networks, ISDN networks, LANs and other modern data networks, B-ISDN networks, and asynchronous transfer mode. Also included is information on all aspects of setting up and running a network, from routing and interworking to traffic control and charging for use, as well as legal and business issues such as network regulation and deregulation, corporate networks, and service provider issues. References to outdated technologies have not been revised away because readers could still come across them. Appends an acronym-expanding glossary and a list of ISO two-letter country codes. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.