Going beyond the simple definitions provided in telecom dictionaries, the massive and comprehensive Desktop Encyclopedia provides detailed 3-5 page articles, complete with diagrams and tables, that fully explain key telecommunications technologies, protocols, and principles.
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does well at keeping pace with the changing field...excellent reference...acronyms list helps clarify jargon…comprehensive…very useful -- Choice, December 2000
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IN-DEPTH ARTICLES, not just definitions
Want detailed, illustrated articles on telecom topics that interest you, not merely 2- or 3-sentence definitions? This new edition of Nathan Muller's Desktop Encyclopedia of Telecommunications explains telecom technologies, terms, and architectures in everyday English, with clear diagrams. NEW IN THIS EDITION--the complete Encyclopedia on CD-ROM, in searchable, printable format! Desktop Encyclopedia of Telecommunications is the ideal vehicle for getting and staying up to speed with the rapid changes in telecom. Written by a recognized expert and author, it's the most comprehensive telecom encyclopedia available! Open the Desktop Encyclopedia of Telecommunications and find: * Over 300 readable, up-to-date articles, 3 to 5 pages long, on topics from access charges and network restoral to thin client architecture and VPNs * More than 50 completely new entries on subjects such as content delivery networks, extranets, and performance baselining * Over 200 diagrams and illustrations * Details on LANs, WANs, voice, data, management, planning, regulations, and standards * Easy-to-use alphabetical organization and thoroughly indexed * Alternative Exchange Points * Analog Line Impairment Testing * Announcement Services * Application Service Providers * Asset Management * Asynchronous Transfer Mode * Automatic Number Identification * Bandwidth Management Systems * Bluetooth * Cable Telephony * Call Centers * Calling Cards * Carnivore * Cellular Telephones * Contingency Planning * Cyber Crime * Digital Divide * Domain Name Service * Electronic Publishing * Firewalls * Frame Relay * Home Phoneline Networking * I-Mode * Interactive Television * International Callback ServiceInternational Interexchange Servicesbr>* Internet Service Providers * Local Loop * Multiprotocol Label Switching * Multiservice Networking * Network Caching * Object-Oriented Networks * Online Transaction Processing * Operations Support Systems * Paging * Passive Optical Networks! * Protocol Analyzers * Proxy Servers * Quality of Service * Radio Communication Interception * Remote Node * Resilient Packet Ring * Software Defined Radio * Spectrum Auctions * Synchronous Communications * Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol * Unified Messaging * Video on Demand * Virtual Private Networks * Voice Mail * Wireless Medical Telemetry Service * Much More
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Strongly recommended; good value.,
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This review is from: Desktop Encyclopedia of Telecommunications (Mcgraw-Hill Telecommunications) (Paperback)
This is a remarkably good reference work, especially considering (or because?) it is the work of one person (and no doubt a good editor). The articles are long enough to cover complex topics yet focused enough to provide a handle on the subject. Muller has an excellent sense of proportion. He offers succinct synopses of technical matters without getting bogged down in stuff only an engineer would understand. You can get a quick overview of "distance learning" and "outsourcing," on the one hand, or PCS 1900 and CDMA on the other. And all of it is very well and clearly written. Useful for anyone in the industry, or just for the curious.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
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Clear non-technical descriptions of telecomunications terms.,
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This review is from: Desktop Encyclopedia of Telecommunications (Mcgraw-Hill Telecommunications) (Paperback)
Clear, non-technical descriptions of telecommunication terminology and concepts are what the reader can expect from this title. It covers LANS, WANS, voice, data, and standards.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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All telecommunications developers and engeeners must have it,
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This book it's has to be in every engeener desktop and also it's a great dictionary for universities stands and for students tools.
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Access charges are the prices interexchange carriers (IXCs) pay to telephone companies for access to their local phone network. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
uncompleted call signaling, rural radiotelephone service, interstate access services, telecommunications management systems, master switching center, number portability charge, phoneware products, sending protocol entity, multiservice concentrator, bandwidth management tools, bandwidth management systems, terminating access charges, international callback service, telephone number portability, cellular data communications, narrowband radio systems, payphone service, voice funnel, collocation space, call management software, diagnostic packet, portability service, subscriber line charge, basic service elements, digital loop carrier systems Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Fibre Channel, Federal Communications Commission, Gigabit Ethernet, Bell Labs, International Telecommunication Union, Fast Ethernet, Local Multipoint Distribution Service, Internet Engineering Task Force, New York, Implementation Agreement, World Wide Web, Open Systems Interconnection, North America, American National Standards Institute, Automatic Call Distributors, Telecom Act, Checklist Item, Pulse Code Modulation, Standards Board, Building Local Exchange Carriers, Frequency Division Multiple Access, Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service, Personal Communication Services, Bell Atlantic New!
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Access charges are the prices interexchange carriers (IXCs) pay to telephone companies for access to their local phone network. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
uncompleted call signaling, rural radiotelephone service, interstate access services, telecommunications management systems, master switching center, number portability charge, phoneware products, sending protocol entity, multiservice concentrator, bandwidth management tools, bandwidth management systems, terminating access charges, international callback service, telephone number portability, cellular data communications, narrowband radio systems, payphone service, voice funnel, collocation space, call management software, diagnostic packet, portability service, subscriber line charge, basic service elements, digital loop carrier systems Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Fibre Channel, Federal Communications Commission, Gigabit Ethernet, Bell Labs, International Telecommunication Union, Fast Ethernet, Local Multipoint Distribution Service, Internet Engineering Task Force, New York, Implementation Agreement, World Wide Web, Open Systems Interconnection, North America, American National Standards Institute, Automatic Call Distributors, Telecom Act, Checklist Item, Pulse Code Modulation, Standards Board, Building Local Exchange Carriers, Frequency Division Multiple Access, Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service, Personal Communication Services, Bell Atlantic New!
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