Broadband Access Technologies [Paperback]

Albert A. Azzam (Author), Niel Ransom (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0071350608 | ISBN-13: 978-0071350600 | Publication Date: June 28, 1999 | Edition: 1

-- A service provider's survival guide to choosing the most suitable interactive voice and data services for their customer base
-- Covers all the pros and cons of ADSL, APON, Wireless, and Cable Modems
-- Compares and contrasts cost and performance issues

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From the Back Cover

Meet the need for data speed with the right technology. Demand for high-speed data transmission couldn't be more intense, with an exponentially growing curve of Internet users wearying of the "World Wide Wait" and dreaming of downloaded movies, music, multimedia, and more. For data, telecommunications, and Internet connectivity providers, the future looks bright-unless you choose the wrong access technology. This guide helps you make the right choice for your customer base among DSL, cable modem, fiber, and wireless. It gives you up-to-date information on these top competing technologies and can take the nail biting out of a make-or-break business decision. Written by Albert Azzam, a 27-year telecommunications veteran, ADSL expert, and contributor to the high-speed cable modem standard; and by Niel Ransom, also a telecom veteran and a communications specialist with Alcatel, Broadband Access Technologies gives you the data you need to: draw clear distinctions among the top competing access technologies; rate the advantages and disadvantages of each technology using up-to-date information; assess the impact of new network services and advanced applications; contrast the outlook in the United States and Europe; compare broadband network vendors; discover alternative technologies, including power-line transmissions; select the right access technology for your customer demographics. For telecommunications, data, and internet service providers, cable TV operators, managers and technicians-as well as investors-this is the book that makes sense of broadband access.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing; 1 edition (June 28, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0071350608
• ISBN-13: 978-0071350600
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.3 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,305,809 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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47 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars an excellent technical overview of broadband, January 16, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Broadband Access Technologies (Paperback)

As the move of the internet towards broadband becomes ever more obvious, "Broadband Access technologies" is a wonderful book that will teach you how these technologies work.

It goes through xDSL, cable, fiber, HFC, satellites, LMDS, MMDS, next generation internet, ATM vs IP and lots more.

It will tell you how these technologies work, how they compare with each other, what the costs involved are, what the regulatory framework is and could become. It is a one stop book, as you don't have to go through a book on each of these tecnologies.

It can be easily inderstood by a non telecom engineer (as myself) who wants to understand the battle going on in the tech world

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Skims on Details, April 24, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Broadband Access Technologies (Paperback)

I found the book to be a good high level view of most of the broadband technologies offered, but it skimps on details of different protocols and fails to even mention line rates of technologies such as T2, T3.

Good for someone who wants in intro to Broadband, but not for a serious developer in the field.

6 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Thick and thin on a whim, June 3, 2000

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Dale A. Brill (Tallahassee, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Broadband Access Technologies (Paperback)

This review is for non-techies flirting with getting deeper into the tech side. Despite the low rating, the book is worth purchasing. Be prepared for spots of derailing detail that will likely throw the casual reader off track. Other areas are too thin, probably due to the author's assumptions that the reader is already up to speed. The kiss of death for this book is the spelling and grammar. I used this book in a summer capstone course in FSU's interactive communication master's program. My students were the first to point out the book would have been handed back ungraded for a rewrite. Is there an editor in the house? The publisher blew this one; don't blame the author.