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Communications Technology Explained
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Mark Norris, Norwest Communications, UK
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0471 98625 9
January 2000
Paperback288pp
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Part of the highly successful Wiley-BT series, this comprehensive volume provides a clear
and concise description of communications technology, and the key telecommunications and computing projects,
including network design, implementation, management and application. Written in a highly accessible style, it
pays considerable attention to making each topic comprehensible, and to convey understanding, as well as data.
- Enables readers to significantly extend their knowledge of communications technology
- Details the ideas that are both current and evolving in communication systems
- Allows non-experts to question both accurately and in-depth, whilst providing context for the specialist and detail for the generalist
- Offers invaluable advice to network and telecommunications specialists
A clear and indispensable guide, it presents essential reading for anyone who needs to appreciate the scope and
breadth of communications technology.
Partial Contents:
- The New Communications Business:
- Some Basic Concepts
- The Public Switched Telephone Network
- The Internet
- Technology Trends:
- From Narrowband to Broadband
- From Desktop to Core Network
- From Switched to Intelligent Networks
- Key Telecommunications Concepts: Back to Basics
- Data Networks
- Network Products
- Telecommunications Technology:
- Bulk Transmission - SONET/SDH
- Exploiting the Local Loop - xDSL and ISDN
- Satellite Communications
- Speech Coding
- Key Computing Concepts:
- Object Orientation
- The Three-Tier Architecture
- Mobile Code
- Application Program Interfaces
- Computing Technology:
- Distributed Objects
- Directories
- Distributed Transaction Processing
- The Intelligent Network:
- Why Networks need to be Intelligent
- Examples of IN Services
- Centralised or Distributed Intelligence?
- The Internet and Intranets:
- Views of the Net
- Behind the Scenes
- Communication Standards:
- The Players
- How They Work Together
- A Meeting of Minds:
- Are We Having Fun Yet?
- Two Become One.
Series: Wiley-BT Series
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