In a book for the non-communications professional, ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) and ADSL (digital signal line) technologies are presented at an understandable level. The CD-ROM contains ATM training software. .
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Hello. Thanks for visiting my biography. I was born a long time ago in a far, far away land. Well, not really so long ago and not so far away but, with the dramatic changes in the United States the past 30 years, it does seem long ago and far away. I was born in north Texas near Red River, the Texas-Oklahoma border. I grew up swimming and fishing in Red River. Although I am a Texan by birth, I have so much Red River mud in me, I think I am half-Okie. After high school I volunteered for the United States Marine Corps. I served 8 years in the Corps. During my service I began my college education, eventually graduating from the University of Texas at Dallas. After the Marine Corps, I began work as an engineer with Rockwell International. I worked for Rockwell for 14 years. During my Rockwell years I traveled the world and worked long-term projects in Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and England. On 04 November 1979 I escaped from a firing squad in Teheran early that morning and eventually made my way to a friendly embassy where I remained in hiding for four days before escaping the country dressed as a Lufthansa crew member.
After working for Rockwell, I worked contract jobs around the world finally settling in Plano, Texas for awhile. Then I migrated to Maryland and worked five years as a contractor for the Naval Air Warfare Center - Aircraft Division. In December 2009 I returned to Texas and am currently residing in McKinney, Texas.
My profession has been electrical engineering with a concentration in hardware and software development primarily in the aerospace industry but I do have experience and patents in other industries including automotive, video, telecommunications, networking, and avionics. I have performed in roles ranging from field engineer to Director of Engineering to Vice-President of Engineering to Chief Executive Officer.
In the 1990's I started writing as a way to express myself. The first book I wrote was Flashing Miss Dixie. I wrote Flashing Miss Dixie in two weeks during the Christmas break in 1998. No, it is not a book about raincoats and dirty ole men! It is a humorous book about five fun-loving teenage boys who use an old camera with flash attachment to flash gentlemen who give spirited chase in order to retrieve the "valuable evidence" when unexpectedly caught in compromising situations with a local paramour of ill repute. Those boys loved a good chase better than anything else (well, almost). After Flashing Miss Dixie I continued to work full time as an engineer but a publisher offered me the opportunity to write some technical books. I took advantage of the opportunity and wrote several more books.
I had opportunity to write even more books but a crumbling marriage combined with the onset of diabetes (untreated for five years) and a dead gallbladder diverted my attention for awhile. The last book I wrote, Solving The 1897 Airship Mystery, coincided with my divorce in 2003. I had spent almost ten years researching the airship mystery.
Now I am writing a work of fiction titled Saawariya (Oh, My Beloved). The novel will be published in 2011. Saawariya is a love story unique in the betrayal the protagonist suffers at the hands of his lover. I hope you buy a copy and enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
After working for Rockwell, I worked contract jobs around the world finally settling in Plano, Texas for awhile. Then I migrated to Maryland and worked five years as a contractor for the Naval Air Warfare Center - Aircraft Division. In December 2009 I returned to Texas and am currently residing in McKinney, Texas.
My profession has been electrical engineering with a concentration in hardware and software development primarily in the aerospace industry but I do have experience and patents in other industries including automotive, video, telecommunications, networking, and avionics. I have performed in roles ranging from field engineer to Director of Engineering to Vice-President of Engineering to Chief Executive Officer.
In the 1990's I started writing as a way to express myself. The first book I wrote was Flashing Miss Dixie. I wrote Flashing Miss Dixie in two weeks during the Christmas break in 1998. No, it is not a book about raincoats and dirty ole men! It is a humorous book about five fun-loving teenage boys who use an old camera with flash attachment to flash gentlemen who give spirited chase in order to retrieve the "valuable evidence" when unexpectedly caught in compromising situations with a local paramour of ill repute. Those boys loved a good chase better than anything else (well, almost). After Flashing Miss Dixie I continued to work full time as an engineer but a publisher offered me the opportunity to write some technical books. I took advantage of the opportunity and wrote several more books.
I had opportunity to write even more books but a crumbling marriage combined with the onset of diabetes (untreated for five years) and a dead gallbladder diverted my attention for awhile. The last book I wrote, Solving The 1897 Airship Mystery, coincided with my divorce in 2003. I had spent almost ten years researching the airship mystery.
Now I am writing a work of fiction titled Saawariya (Oh, My Beloved). The novel will be published in 2011. Saawariya is a love story unique in the betrayal the protagonist suffers at the hands of his lover. I hope you buy a copy and enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
A good intro to ATM & DSL, but be careful of the details.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Demystifying ATM/ADSL (Paperback)
Technical books that attempt to be more than a pure reference manual (i.e. a schematic or specification) can be the most difficult endeavors to write. Finding truly great technical books are rare. Therefore, when I say that Demystifying ATM/DSL is only fair, I am saying it is as good as most.The book is a good start to understanding how ATM and DSL may come together and why they are a good solution in the market. Unfortunately, the writer wants the book to be both a technical reference and an overview at the same time. As a result, he fails to do either really well. On the technical reference side of the coin, the book takes you all the way to the altar, but does not marry you. In lynchpin areas of discussion, you get just enough detail to leave you wondering about the rest of the story. For example, in trying to find out about the direct relationship between AAL types, and QoS in ATM, there is one sentence that states CBR uses either AAL1 or 5 (page 131). No other reference is made to the relationships between the others leaving you to wonder what, if any, these relationships are. Another problem with the technical information is that the casual or novice reader may not notice the errors leaving them either confused or completely misled. For example, the author uses the term microsecond in one sentence and then abbreviates it with "msec" (which stands for millisecond) (page 201). Which amount of time the author meant, I still do not know. In another example, the author mixes up the headers on a table reversing the ITU and ATM forum (page 131). If the headers are not reversed, then the table on the previous page must be wrong. I am concerned about other errors I simply absorbed due to their subtlety. As an overview of ATM and DSL, the book covers a good swath of both the technical and the market. Opinions are clearly unidentified by either direct reference, or intonation. If the reader is careful about the aforementioned technical content, a good foundation of understanding can be ascertained from the book. Again, I do give the book a solid three stars because these types of books are so difficult to write (as proven by the field available). The problems in the text are not unusual to technical books at large.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
This is not a technical book,
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This review is from: Demystifying ATM/ADSL (Paperback)
I bought the book searching for technical material that would help me understand the ATM/ADSL protocols.What I found was an extremely superficial book that explains the very basics of telecommunications, digital transmission and the OSI layers. With 1 very short and practically irrelevant chapter reserved to ATM itself and another to ADSL, I wouldn't recommend anyone this book. If you're the extreme beginner, search for a primer on networking or telecommunications. If you're not, get another book on ATM.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Great Read,
By A Customer
This review is from: Demystifying ATM/ADSL (Paperback)
Mr. Busby explains ATM and DSL in easy to understand terms. For the non-engineer, this book is a god-send. Additionally, the book is written with a certain humorous style that makes the otherwise dry technical information easy to digest. I think it is a great read and recommend it to anyone wanting or needing to understand these two technologies.
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