Telecommunications Crash Course

By Steven Shepard

Book Overview

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071832661
• ISBN13: 9780071832663
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 576 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Great Book

Great book for everything Telecom. Covers past, current and future technologies. If you are a tech nut like me, buy this book and read it cover to cover.

Excellent Introduction, in the opinion of a Telecom newcomer

This is a fantastic book if you want an overview that focuses on technical and some business aspects of telecommunications, and are someone that enjoys reading more techie-oriented material. (For the record, I am an MechE by training who is now working for one of the companies mentioned in the book, so this really was my entire Intro course to Telecom, and I plan to continue my learning. This book was an excellent guide...

The complete telecom overview

If I were starting out in the telecommuncations field, this would be the first book that I'd recommend that anyone read. It gives you a high level look at: what protocols do and are used for; what the primary access technologies are; a great description of the telephony system that provides the main infrastructure of the Internet; and, the primary transport technologies that are being used today.Because this is a "crash course"...

Excellent professional reference....

This book is an excellent professional reference for anyone needing to get a jump start on learning about data and telecommunications. Not a detailed techie book, this book provides the crash course hinted at in the title by hitting all of the major issues that one will run into in voice and data networking today and quickly get you up to speed on the basics. It is accurate *and* well-written!! Great preparatory reading also...

Telecom Crash Course

I've been telecom industry for fifteen years and always had a difficult time explaining to friends and non industry folks how the business works. This book makes sense of it all in easy and fun read for the professional and the new comer. Richard Parlato