Voice and Data Communications Handbook: Signature Edition (McGraw-Hill Computer Communications Series)

Your one-stop Telephony and Telecom answer book. Get jargon-free answers to your questions on virtually every aspect of today's telephony and telecommunications systems in Voice & Data Communications Handbook, Signature Edition, by Regis J. ``Bud'' Bates and Donald Gregory. With this all-in-one guide you'll quickly master the essentials of analog, digital and analog-to-digital transmission--Internet and intranet hook-ups--engineering traffic to minimize congestion and disruptions--PBXs--competitive local exchange providers--voice processing and data communications--T1 and T-carrier systems--OSI--X.25--Ethernet and Token-Ring LANs--baseband versus broadband--frame relay--ISDN--ATM--video conferencing--light voice and data systems--and much more.

Regis J. "Bud" Bates has over 30 years experience in telecommunications and management information systems. He is president of TC International Consulting, Inc. in Phoenix, Arizona. Donald Gregory has more than 20 years experience in information processing and is currently a senior consultant with CSC Partners, a consulting subsidiary of Computer Sciences Corporation.