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ADSL, VDSL, and Multicarrier Modulation

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Reading this book would have saved us some assumptions that were incorrect in designing DSL chip. Now I know how to do better analysis of the problem.

We use this book constantly to refer to for fundamental explanations while we also used the practical section. Great book and a must have for anyone doing digital comm, OFDM and other types of multicarrier design.

I found this book useful in understanding some of the fundamental issues as well as the implementation sections. Our team has been doing medem design for years and this gave a new perspective compared to other dsl books that are very similar in content.

We found the book very useful as our team had been looking for some good references to understand MCM and more on DSL in general. Different perspective, excellent practical contributions too.

Multicarrier is hot right now and this book helped clarify many points not generally covered elsewhere. I find this book also a useful reference to return to for practical applications. We extend the concepts to our wireless design.

Save your money. This expensive little (273 page)book was very disappointing. My expectations were high - based on this author's first book - but this one just didn't deliver. Half of the stuff in this book is great - just what you would expect from this author - but the other half is incomplete, inaccurate, or just plain biased toward the author's pet ideas so the reader suffers by the lack of serious in-depth analysis in places where it is sorely needed. Sadly, this subjective approach is also what I have come to expect from this author in recent years, but I had hoped that he could now be more objective. Fortunately, the author's wit shows through in places but that's not enough to make up for the high price of the book or my disappointment in the quality of the material presented.

I am working in a high-tech firm on a team designing XDSL modems. This book was almost useless to our R & D efforts.