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Newton's Telecom Dictionary

Name: Newton's Telecom Dictionary
Author: Harry Newton
ISBN: 9780979387302

by Harry Newton

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Overview

This is the world's bestselling and most comprehensive reference book on telecom, data communications, networking, computing and the Internet, with over 675,000 copies sold. Featuring 500 new terms plus hundreds more updated and expanded entries, the 21st edition of Newton's Telecom Dictionary weighs in at over four times larger than any other telecom and IT dictionary, and includes wireless, broadband, VoIP, RFID, and fiber optics terms.

Packed with over 22,400 definitions, it explains technical concepts in non-technical language that anyone can understand. It's used by more leading technology companies for training and employee orientation than any other text.

Four bonus sections include: Harry Newton's favorite money-saving tips for telecom, computing, and more; what happens when telecom services are suddenly free? -a vision for this business in the 21st century; how you should orient your precious telecom budget in today's tight times; disaster recovery planning to protect your computing and telecom resources.

Most dictionaries are updated every ten to twenty years. Not this one. Newton updates this dictionary every day and issues a new, expanded, improved and updated edition every ear. This edition is current as of Spring 2005.

About the Author, Harry Newton

Harry Newton has 30 years in telecommunications. He founded LAN (now Network) Magazine, the first networking magazine. He founded three leading monthly telecom magazine - Call Center, Computer Telephony, and Teleconnect. He also founded the enormously successful trade show, Computer Telephony Conference and Exposition (CT Expo). He is (of late) a successful angel (early venture capitalist) in telecom, networking and Internet ventures. Recently he started a monthly newsletter, Harry Newton's Technology Investor. For a subscription go to www.TechnologyInvestor.com. Newton holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and an Economics undergraduate degree from the University of Sydney, Australia. He is not an engineer. But he knows enough to be dangerous in front of them. And that, he says, is the ultimate thrill.

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The Barnes & Noble Review
Few industries offer as many bewildering terms and acronyms as telecom. But few industries have a book as remarkable as Newton’s Telecom Dictionary. Harry Newton’s done everything, knows everything, and can explain all of it. His unique sense of humor actually makes this stuff fun. And he’s kept on keepin’ on, through divestiture, deregulation, dot-coms, and now 21 annual editions.

Whatever you want/need to know, it’s here: wireless, Internet, broadband, VoIP, GPS, RFID, even the money side of telecom (Among other things, Newton’s now a venture capitalist). You’ll find 22,000-plus definitions. And many of them go way beyond what you’d expect, telling why things work the way they do (or why they don’t work the way they ought). Whether you’re a telecom engineer, a marketer, or “just” a customer, Harry’s written your one indispensable reference. Again. Bill Camarda, from the April 2005 Read Only

Business Week

Mystified by terms such as pink noise, pure aloha, Gorizont? . . . Newton can help.

PC Magazine

An essential resource.

From The Critics

Now in a completely updated, revised and expanded seventeenth edition, the Newton's Telecom Dictionary continues to be an invaluable dictionary of terms, words, and concepts relevant to telecommunications, networking and the Internet. One particular virtue of this immensely useful reference is Harry Newton's introduction "Where The Telecom, Networking, Fiber, Internet, Web Explosion Is Taking Us". No professional, academic, or community library computer or Internet reference collection can be considered up-to-date without the inclusion of this latest edition of Newton's Telecom Dictionary as a core title.