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Telecommunications crash course
"Completely revised bestseller, updated to cover the global Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT) sector and "Anytime, Anywhere, Any Device" technologyTelecommunications Crash Course, Third Edition fully addresses the crossover that is taking place between the telecom, technology, and...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, N.Y. :
McGraw-Hill Education LLC.,
c2014.
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| Edición: | 3rd ed. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A. Dedication
- B. Foreword
- C. Introduction?and an admonition
- African journey
- Structure of the book
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The changing technoscape
- The telecom sector
- The technology sector
- The media sector
- Interdependencies
- The changing competitive paradigm
- Some of the money?
- Closing thoughts
- Chapter one questions
- 2. The standards that guide us
- Terminology
- Data communications
- Data communications standards: where do they come from?
- The international telecommunications union
- The telecommunications standardization sector
- The telecommunications standardization bureau
- The radio bureau
- The development sector
- The standards themselves
- The standards
- Other important organizations
- Closing thoughts
- Chapter two questions
- 3. Data communications protocols
- Data communications systems and functions
- The science of communications
- Data communications networks
- Binary arithmetic review
- The network
- Network access
- Miscellaneous additional terms
- Network transport
- The many flavors of transport
- Transport channels
- Analog versus digital signaling: dispensing with myths
- Digital signaling
- Combining signaling techniques for higher bit rates
- The internet: what is it?
- The world wide web (www)
- Internet timeline (1960?2013)
- The open systems interconnection reference model
- The willie sutton story
- Back to the model
- Layer by layer
- Esperanto
- Layer 7: the application layer
- Layer 6: the presentation layer
- Layer 5: the session layer
- Layer 4: the transport layer
- Layer 3: the network layer
- The data link layer
- The physical layer
- Osi summary
- Other protocol stacks
- Chapter summary
- Chapter three questions
- 4. Telephony
- Miracle on second avenue
- The history of telephony
- Not to be forgotten: cable
- The telephone network
- The modern telephone system
- In the belly of the beast
- Network topology
- Subscriber loop carrier
- Into the central office
- Interoffice trunking
- Conserving bandwidth: voice transport
- Beginnings: d1 framing
- The synchronous optical network
- Sonet evolution
- The sonet frame
- Sonet bandwidth
- The sts-n frame
- The sts-nc frame
- Overhead modifications in sts-nc frames
- Transporting sub-rate payloads: virtual tributaries
- Creating virtual tributaries.
- Creating the virtual tributary superframe
- Sonet synchronization
- One final thought: next-generation sonet
- Virtual concatenation
- Link capacity adjustment scheme
- Generic framing procedure
- Sonet summary
- Sdh nomenclature
- The sdh frame
- Stm frame overhead
- Overhead details
- Voice digitization
- The nature of voice
- The network
- Multiplexing
- Voice digitization
- Alternative digitization techniques
- Adaptive differential pulse code modulation
- Enter the modern world: voice-over ip
- Voip versus internet telephony: an important distinction
- Voip evolution
- Skype
- Carrier class ip voice
- Winning with voip
- Ip-enabled call centers
- Integrating the pbx
- An important aside: billing as a critical service
- Voip supporting protocols
- A final thought: network management for qos
- Summary
- Chapter summary
- Chapter four questions
- 5. The byzantine world of regulation
- Regulation challenge no. 1: net neutrality
- Regulation challenge no. 2: broadband stimulus
- Technology and regulation
- Current issues in regulation
- Life, liberty, and broadband
- Chapter five questions
- 6. Premises technologies
- The computer
- Enter the pc
- Lan basics
- Lan characteristics
- Local area network access schemes
- Logical lan design
- Other relevant technologies
- Wi-fi today
- Wi-fi in action
- Wi-fi security
- An aside: mobility versus ubiquity
- Zigbee
- The final three: firewire, thunderbolt, and usb
- Usb pd
- Summary
- Chapter six questions
- 7. Content and media
- The world of multimedia
- Setting the stage
- Application-programmer interface
- It's all about the ecosystem
- Still images
- The arrival of compression
- Google glass
- Why this matters
- Video
- Is that a horse ? or a tree?
- Modern video technology
- Component formats
- Digital video
- The dichotomy of quality of experience
- Video capture and encoding technologies
- The video process
- What the market wants, the market gets: compression
- Television standards
- Video summary
- The world of music
- Steve jobs' influence
- Cracking the code
- Final thoughts
- Chapter seven questions.
- 8. Access technologies
- Marketplace realities
- Integrated services digital network
- Pbx applications
- Digital subscriber line
- Dsl market issues
- Provider challenges
- Electrical disturbances
- Physical impairments
- Load coils and bridged taps
- Solutions
- Cable-based access technologies
- Playing in the broadband game
- The cable network
- The ever-changing cable network
- Data over cable service interface specification
- Wireless access technologies
- Radio's evolution
- A touch of technology
- Improving the model
- The spectrum battles heat up
- Cellular telephony
- Ok, but how does it work?
- Access methods
- Access evolution
- Data enhancements to gsm
- Generalized packet radio service
- The reality
- The wireless data conundrum
- The road to 3g?and beyond
- Dod and rfid
- Network impacts
- Final thoughts
- Rfid: what's next?
- Satellite technology
- Satellite services: what's the catch?
- Other wireless access solutions
- Worldwide interoperability for microwave access
- The future of wimax
- Zigbee
- One last topic: machine-to-machine communications
- The internet of ?
- Machine-to-machine applications
- Concerns and issues
- Chapter summary
- Chapter eight questions
- 9. Transport technologies
- Point-to-point technologies
- The switching hierarchy
- Many forms of packet switching
- Optical networking
- The origins of optical fiber
- Optical fiber
- Scattering problems
- Optical amplification
- Optical receivers
- Optical fiber
- Modes: an analogy
- Why does it matter?
- Optical fundamentals summary
- Dense wavelength division multiplexing
- Optical switching and routing
- Mems alternatives
- An aside: a trip to the wave venture
- Chapter summary
- Chapter nine questions
- 10. The ip takeover
- The internet's early days
- Arpanet growing pains
- Managing the internet
- Naming conventions in the internet
- The tcp/ip protocol: what it is and how it works
- Ip header fields
- Understanding ip addresses
- Ip address classes
- Subnet masking
- Adding to the alphabet soup: cidr, dhcp, nat, and pat
- Addressing in ip: the domain name system
- Early address resolution schemes
- Routing in ip networks
- Ip version 6
- Ipv6 header
- Transport layer protocols
- The internet control message protocol
- The application layer
- Multiprotocol label switching
- Final thoughts
- Chapter ten questions
- 11. The it mandate
- Change in the wind
- The changing face of it
- Tracking the trends and the shaping forces
- Cloud
- A final word: colocation
- Machine-to-machine and near field communications
- The triad of trust
- On to the trends
- An aside: html5 and why it matters
- Consumerization of it bring your own device
- The new customer
- Catering to the generations: watching the market grow up
- The cycle of life
- Baby boomers
- Generation x
- Millennials
- The bright side of millennials
- An example: telus
- Motivating millennials
- Conclusion
- The changing face of work
- Final thoughts
- Chapter eleven questions
- A. Closing thoughts
- B. Appendix
- Photo credits
- Bibliography
- Web resources and links
- Steve's learning resources
- What i read
- Authors
- Podcasts
- Books
- Common industry acronyms
- Dr. Steven Shepard.