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Understanding Telecommunications and Lightwave Systems: An Entry-Level Guide

Name: Understanding Telecommunications and Lightwave Systems: An Entry-Level Guide
Author: John G. Nellist
ISBN: 9780780304185

by John G. Nellist

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Overview

This updated edition provides an overview of the emerging technology of lightwave systems and its impact on communications. You will be shown the basic principles and standards of today's telephone network as well as current and future technologies of microwave radio, satellite and wireless communications, digital switching, and video transmission.

"...an updated edition providing an overview of the emerging technology of lightwave systems and its impact on communications...describes basic principles and standards as well as current and future technologies."

About the Author, John G. Nellist

JOHN G. NELLIST led the development and implementation of fiber optic technology into the British Columbia telephone network as General Transmission Engineering Manager at Telus (formerly BC Telecom). He was appointed overall coordinator for the first field trial of a fiber optic transmission system in 1978 and presented one of the first papers on an operating fiber optic system in 1979 at the International Fiber Optic Conference.
With more than forty years of telecommunications experience, John Nellist has published and presented numerous technical papers and articles on the subject. Currently a consultant at Sarita Enterprises, Ltd., Nellist has also coauthored two books with Elliott M. Gilbert, Telecommunications Wiring for Commercial Buildings and Understanding Modern Telecommunications and the Information Superhighway.

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This introductory guide provides a nontechnical overview of contemporary telecommunications systems. Chapters discuss the evolution of telecommunications, the computer, analog transmission, digital transmission, basic multiplexing techniques, switching hierarchies, North American digital hierarchy, local subscriber loops, microwave radios, satellite communications, private branch exchange, traffic considerations, video transmissions, wireless technology, the Internet, and lightwave technology. Nellist is a consultant. A glossary is included. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)