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Telecommunications Essentials: The Complete Global Source for Communications Fundamentals, Data Networking and the Internet, and Next-Generation Networks

ISBN: 0201760320
EAN: 2147483647

Year: 2005
Pages: 84

Authors: Lillian Goleniewski

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• Copyright
• Introduction
• What This Book Covers
• Online Tools That Supplement the Book
• About the Author
• Acknowledgments
• Part I: Telecommunications Fundamentals
• Chapter 1. Understanding the Telecommunications Revolution
• Changes in Telecommunications
• The New Public Network
• Convergence
• Chapter 2. Telecommunications Technology Fundamentals
• Transmission Lines
• Types of Network Connections
• The Electromagnetic Spectrum and Bandwidth
• Analog and Digital Transmission
• Multiplexing
• Standards Organizations
• Chapter 3. Transmission Media: Characteristics and Applications
• Twisted-pair
• Coaxial Cable
• Microwave
• Satellite
• Fiber Optics
• Chapter 4. Establishing Communications Channels
• Establishing Connections: Switching Modes and Networking Modes
• The PSTN Versus the Internet
• Chapter 5. The PSTN
• The PSTN Infrastructure
• The Transport Network Infrastructure
• Signaling Systems
• Intelligent Networks
• Part II: Data Networking Basics
• Chapter 6. Data Communications Basics
• The Evolution of Data Communication
• Data Flow
• The OSI Reference Model and Protocols
• Chapter 7. Wide Area Networking
• Circuit-Switched Networks
• Packet-Switched Networks
• Chapter 8. Local Area Networking
• LAN Basics
• LAN Characteristics
• LAN Interconnection and Internetworking
• Enterprise Network Trends
• Chapter 9. The Internet: Infrastructure and Service Providers
• Internet Basics
• The Organization of the Internet
• Service Providers
• Internet Interconnection and Exchange
• Part III: Next-Generation Networks
• Chapter 10. Next-Generation Networks
• The Broadband Evolution
• Multimedia Networking Requirements
• The Broadband Infrastructure
• The Broadband Architecture: Multiservice Networks
• Chapter 11. Next-Generation Network Services
• Traditional Internet Applications
• VPNs
• Security
• VoIP
• Multimedia on the Internet: Streaming Media
• Chapter 12. Optical Networking
• Optical Networking Drivers
• Components of an End-to-End Optical Network
• IP over Optical Standards
• Managing Optical Networks
• Chapter 13. Broadband Access Solutions
• xDSL
• HFC
• Fiber
• Wireless Broadband Access Media
• Emerging Media
• Chapter 14. Wireless Communications
• Spectrum Reuse
• Wireless WANs: Cellular Radio and PCS Networks
• Wireless MANs
• Wireless LANs
• Wireless PANs
• Chapter 15. The Broadband Home and HANs
• The Broadband Home
• HANs
• Glossary