Telecommunications Essentials

Telecommunications current and emerging, wired and wireless--is covered in-depth here with the broadest, deepest, most up-to-date telecom overview on the market by one of the field's leading trainers. Whether readers are new to telecommunications and IT or simply want an understandable, comprehensive review of the state-of-the-art technology, this book is for them.

Telecommunications Essentials, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive overview of the rapidly evolving world of telecommunications. Providing an in-depth, one-stop reference for anyone wanting to get up to speed on the $1.2 trillion telecommunications industry, this book not only covers the basic building blocks but also introduces the most current information on new technologies. This edition features new sections on IP telephony, VPNs, NGN architectures, broadband access alternatives, and broadband wireless applications, and it describes the technological and political forces at play in the world of telecommunications around the globe. Topics include Communications fundamentals, from traditional transmission media, to establishing communicationschannels, to the PSTN Data networking and the Internet, including the basics of data communications, local area networking, wide area networking, and the Internet and IP infrastructures Next-generation networks, including the applications, characteristics, and requirements of the new generation of networks that are being built to quickly and reliably carry the ever-increasing network traffic, focusing on IP services, network infrastructure, optical networking, and broadband access alternatives Wireless networking, including the basics of wireless networking and the technologies involved in WWANs, WMANs, WLANs, and WPANs

7 -- Transmission Techniques 2717.1 Introduction 271; 7.2 Transmission Line Behavior 271; 7.3 Decibel Measurements 273; 7.4 Basic TDM Techniques and Digital Transmission Systems 274; 7.5 Plesiochronous Higher-Order Digital Multiplexing or PDH 279; 7.6 Synchronous Digital Multiplexing 281; 7.7 Optical Networks 287; 7.8 The Future 290; 8 -- Telecommunication Systems Testing 293; 8.1 Introduction 293; 8.2 Measurement Areas 293; 8.3 Measurement of Power Levels in Telecommunications Circuits 294; 8.4 High-Frequency Power Measurements 296.

From semiconductors to networks and exchanges, busy telecom engineers can now get up to speed on the latest advances in the field with this vital tool for the rapid understanding and mastering of the latest implementation and development techniques.

The Second Edition of this critically-acclaimed text continues the standard of excellence set in the first edition by providing a thorough introduction to the fundamentals of telecommunication networks without bogging you down in complex technical jargon or math. Although focusing on the basics, the book has been thoroughly updated with the latest advances in the field, including a new chapter on metropolitan area networks (MANs) and new sections on Mobile Fi, ZigBee and ultrawideband. You’ll learn which choices are now available to an organization, how to evaluate them and how to develop strategies that achieve the best balance among cost, security and performance factors for voice, data, and image communication.