Telecom Management Crash Course

Shows service providers how to efficiently manage their technology advantages and back-end operations to survive in this challenging economic climate.

This unique book serves as a readable, holistic introduction to telecommunications. Far more than an acronym-studded quick fix, Telecom Crash Course is a true tutorial that offers context, connections--and humor-- to teach the importance of key technologies. Author Steven Shepard, an accomplished writer and teachers, uses lively stories that deliver important points about the markets that drive the technologies. He provides not only rigorous technical accuracy, with explanations of each technology's economic importance, but a market and customer-focused analysis of the use and business significance of each technology – and how they relate to each other.

Survival Guide to Understanding -- and Profiting From -- Broadband! Get the right answers for smart broadband decision making-- from financial, management and marketing to equipment, applications, and protocols. Broadband Crash Course examines broadband delivery in terms of markets and business opportunities. Writing with the surety and thoroughness of a telecom insider and business executive, P.J. Louis clearly and painlessly demonstrates how broadband services are delivered over today's complex telecommunications infrastructure, minus the heavy-duty math. This one-of-a-kind guide is your chance to learn about: * Service bundling (voice, Internet access, e-mail, etc.) across all major network types (wireless, IP, cable, satellite, LANs, etc.) * Benefits of wireline and wireless broadband technologies * Service bundling and provisioning across the wireline and wireless broadband networks * The Local Loop and its future * Coaxing more applications from the technologies you've got * Business models that have proven themselves in the real world * 3G wireless, the wireless Internet, softswitching, M-commerce: how will they affect your business?

In this volume, P.J. Louis offers a technical insider's view of the Internet in its evolving mobile business incarnation, m-commerce. The author aims to take the mystery out of the Internet business space by breaking it down into its fundamental components - he provides a quick tour of basic Internet technologies, then discusses the wireless Internet, and the evolution from e-commerce to m-commerce.

"Get a sound fix on the expanding universe of telecom Explore the vast telecom landscape -- from standards and protocols to premise, access and transport technologies. Far more than an acronym-studded quick fix, Telecom Crash Course is a true tutorial that offers you context, connections, and the wisdom to quickly grasp key technologies, including wireless Internet, optical networking, 3G, IP, protocol layer, PSTN, ATM, spread spectrum, GPRS, and SIP. Author Steven Shepard includes lively stories that deliver important points about the markets that drive the technologies. You get rigorous technical accuracy, with explanations of each technologys economic importance. Heres your chance to decipher the alphabet soup of telecom acronyms -- not just what they stand for, but what they mean and how they can generate profits."

COMPLETE COVERAGE OF THE LATEST TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES AND TRENDS Fully revised to address the convergence of the telecom, media, and technology (TMT) sectors, the new edition of this cutting-edge guide provides a comprehensive overview of the current telecom landscape. The book focuses on the interdependence of the IT infrastructure, multimedia content, and broadband transport network in today's hyper-connected mobile environment and discusses the importance of storing, delivering, analyzing, tracking, and monetizing content. Emerging telecom technologies are described in detail. This up-to-date resource is essential for TMT professionals, business decision-makers, marketing and sales staff, and students. Telecommunications Crash Course, Third Edition, covers: Standards and regulations Data communications protocols Telephony, VoIP, SS7, SIP, and IP PBX Premises technologies -- LANs, Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi, ZigBee, FireWire, Thunderbolt, and USB Content -- multimedia, video, and TV Fixed access technologies, including DSL, cable, DOCSIS 3.0, CMTS, and DSLAM Wireless access technologies such as CDMA, GSM, HSPA, LTE, Bluetooth, RFID, and satellite solutions Transport technologies -- frame relay, ATM, high-speed IP switching, optical networking, DWDM, channelized optics, and optical switching IP, IPv6, Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), and IP networking IT, telecom, and media convergence Cloud technologies, data centers, analytics, big data, security, Dumb Terminal 2.0, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), and other emerging topics

Recent advances in VoIP (Voice over IP) technology have made it the solution of choice for voice service because of its low cost and increased reliability. Voice Over IP Crash Course offers practical technology coverage, while discussing the business, strategic and competitive implications of VoIP deployment in corporations. The book also covers the challenges faced by service providers as they evolve to an IP infrastructure while continuing to operate the PSTN. Coverage includes: IP and wireless, IP protocols vs. PSTN Interworking between SS7 and IP-based protocols Network components VoIP Products and manufacturing strategies

Crash course in wireless telecom Need a jargon-free explanation of how wireless telecommunications work, with an emphasis on the design and management of systems? You’ll find it in Paul Bedell’s Wireless Crash Course. This guide provides everything you need to understand the basic working of wireless, its technology and markets. You get a crystal-clear introduction to basic concepts like radio frequency (RF), cell sites, and switching, and insight into issues such as site acquisition, tower selection and construction, design of the fixed network (a.k.a the "backhaul"), and interconnection to the Public Switched Telephone Network. The expert author carefully delineates the complex regulatory processes that affect all wireless service providers. This A to Z treatment of every major feature of wireless explains both coming wireless internet access (WAP, Bluetooth, wireless data, etc.) and wireless broadband access (LMDS, MMDS) and their prospects in the marketplace.