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The Official Dictionary of Telecommunications & the Internet. IP Telephony, LANS & Internets, Call Centers and Computer Telephony Fiber Optics, SONET and DWDM Satellites, Voice, Data, Image & Video Networking, Wired and Wireless Telecom VoIP, T1, T-3, T-4, E-1, E-3, ISDN & ADSL Cable Modems, Cellular PCS & GSM Windows 95, 98, NT, NetWare, Apple, SUN & Unix Networking, ECOMMERCE.
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Telecommunications--broadly defined by Newton's Telecom Dictionary to include voice and data communications, including the Internet--is the defining technology of our age. As such, thousands of terms have entered the lexicon to describe tools and techniques used to move information from one geographic location to another. Still more terms have been coined for the business of buying and selling telecom services. While no dictionary of such a large and fluid collection of jargon could ever approach completeness, this book makes a decent stab at it. In any case, it's an informative and entertaining resource for reading and reference. Based on the theory that merely expanding an unfamiliar acronym can help you understand it, this book will teach readers a great deal.
Newton's Telecom Dictionary contains thousands of terms and phrases, each with a capsule definition. The terms include the names of technical specifications (such as "FRF11" and "Q.931"), technical jargon ("start bit" and "Type 1 CLEC"), equipment ("smart card"), and organizations ("Bellcore"). The dictionary has all this, plus more than a few entries that raise questions. For instance, did the term "Code Blue"--a technical feature of hospital phones that lets patients signal their distress to distant nurses by knocking phone receivers from their cradles--really derive from the fact that people turn blue when unable to breathe, as the book suggests? Whether it's really true or not, anecdotes like this drive the definition home and make for fun reading. --David Wall
Topics covered: The language of voice and data communications, including the public switched-telephone network and the Internet. Definitions include the relationships among standards documents, as well as technologies, products, tools, protocols, companies, people, and other aspects of telecommunications.
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* "An essential resource." -- PC Magazine* "A page-turner that invites use." -- IEEE* "A fixture on the desks of many who deal with the technical world." -- The New York Times * "The one reference book we can't do without...comprehensive and reliable." --Telemanagement newsletter.* "Pound-for-pound it is the best telecom book we have ever seen." -- Discount Long Distance Digest.* "This bestselling dictionary isn't missing a thing. Harry Newton has done a masterful job." -- John Vacca
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- PublisherPub Group West
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 1578200237
- ISBN 13 9781578200238
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages900
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