The Essential Guide to Telecommunications - Softcover

Dodd, Annabel Z

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0132590115 ISBN 13: 9780132590112

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1998

Synopsis

The Essential Guide To Telecommunications

About this title

About the Author

ANNABEL Z. DODD, adjunct professor at Northeastern University's state-of-the-art engineering program, teaches courses in Telecommunications and Data Communications for the Non-Technical. Formerly a marketing manager at NYNEX and Telecommunications Manager at Dennison Manufacturing, a Fortune 500 company, she has consulted with major corporations and institutions in the Greater Boston area for over a decade. She publishes the newsletter Dodd on the Line.

From the Back Cover

Telecommunications for everyone! The essential guide for all telecom users!
In today's "wired" world, practically everyone needs to understand telecommunications. With The Essential Guide to Telecommunications, you can-even if you have no technical background at all!
Leading consultant Annabel Z. Dodd begins with the fundamental concepts you need to know to understand the industry. You'll learn the differences between analog and digital signals; what bandwidth is; why protocols and architectures matter; what multiplexing and compression are; and much more including local and wide area networks.
Next, she covers all the basics of business telephone systems, including PBXs, Key systems, computer-telephony integration, voicemail, ACDs, wiring, and Centrex central-office alternatives. Learn what the Telecommunications Act of 1996 will-and won't-do to promote competition among phone companies, cable and wireless firms, and others.
Discover today's advanced public network services- and tomorrow's. Understand the technology and business advantages associated with:


*ATM

*DSL

*ISDN

*Frame relay

*SONET

The Essential Guide to Telecommunications includes detailed, common-sense explanations of the Internet and wireless services, including intranets, extranets, PCS services, wireless data, wireless local telephony, Low Earth Orbit Satellites (LEOS), Internet and wireless security, cable modems, and more.
No industry will shape the 21st century as profoundly as telecommunications. Whether you're a technical, financial, sales, marketing or PR professional-or simply a citizen who communicates-this book makes sense of it all!

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0132590115
• ISBN 13: 9780132590112
• Binding: Paperback