This book provides readers worldwide with the knowledge and skills required for successful implementation and support of today's telecommunications networks, which have the ability to transport voice, data and image traffic to any location in the world. This book demystifies all of the components and standards of today's telecommunications options. You learn how to evaluate your organization's choices and develop a strategy that achieves the best balance between cost, security and performance for each type of traffic.
Preface. Chapter 1. Introductory Concepts. Chapter 2. Signals Convey Intelligence. Chapter 3. Quality of Services and Telecommunication Impairments. Chapter 4. Transmission and Switching: Cornerstones of a Network. Chapter 5. Transmission Aspects of Voice Telephony. Chapter 6. Digital Networks. Chapter 7. Signaling. Chapter 8. Local and Long-Distance Networks. Chapter 9. Concepts of Transmission Transport. Chapter 10. Data Communications. Chapter 11. Enterprise Networks I: Local Area Network. Chapter 12. Enterprise Networks II: Wide Area Networks. Chapter 13. Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs). Chapter 14. CCITT Signaling System No. 7. Chapter 15. Voice Over Packets in a Packet Network. Chapter 16. Television Transmission. Chapter 17. Community Antenna Television (Cable Television). Chapter 18. Cellular and PCS Radio Systems. Chapter 19. Advanced Broadband Digital Transport Formats. Chapter 20. Asynchronous Transfer Mode. Chapter 21. Network Management. Appendix A: Review of Fundamentals of Electrivity with Telecommunication Applications. Appendix B: A Review of Mathematics for Telecommunication Applications. Appendic C: Learning Decibles and Their Applications. Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations. Index.
ROGER L. FREEMAN is founder and Principal of Roger Freeman Associates, independent consultants in telecommunications, specializing in system engineering in the United States, Canada and Hispanic America. In the course of over 45 years' experience in telecommunications operations, maintenance, and engineering, he has served as principal engineer for advanced system planning at the Raytheon Company, technical manager for ITT Marine Europe, and regional planning expert for the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), among other positions. In addition to the three previous editions of Telecommunication System Engineering, Mr. Freeman has written seven other books on the subject of telecommunications engineering: Telecommunications in Systems Engineering, Fourth Edition; Reference Manual for Telecommunications Engineering, Third Edition; Fiber-Optic Systems for Communication; Fundamentals of Telecommunication; Radio System Design for Telecommunications, Second Edition; Practical Data Communications; and Telecommunication Transmission Handbook, Fourth Edition, all published by Wiley. A senior life member of the IEEE, Roger Freeman has lectured at numerous professional conferences and published widely in international telecommunication journals.