High Speed Digital Transmission Networking: Covering T/E-Carrier Multiplexing, SONET and SDH [Hardcover]

Gilbert Held (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 16, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0471983586 | ISBN-13: 978-0471983583 | Edition: 2

Keeping up-to-date with the latest developments in the field, this book provides practical information about the characteristics, operation, utilization and testing of digital networks. Also examines digital network facilities that are available in the US and UK, and North American and European T-Carrier framing and coding formats. The book also includes information on DSL, FT1, FT3 and T3 carriers.

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• Comprehensive guide to the composition, operation, utilization, testing and troubleshooting of T- and E-carrier transmission facilities, the building blocks of digital transmission.
• Discusses voice digitization techniques: their differences, advantages, disadvantages and the integration of voice and data networks.
• Covers T1, E1 and T3 carrier formats, ISDN, SONET, SDH, and digital circuit restoral operations.
• Provides information covering the testing and troubleshooting of digital transmission facilities, it examines the use of performance measurements and the use of circuit transmission objectives.
• Illustrates digital networking strategies to include networking structures and the economics associated with different structures.

High Speed Digital Transmission Networking covers all aspects of high speed digital transmission systems, including the fundamentals of digital signaling, coding and clocking to acquaint readers with the technology and terminology. Readers can focus upon specific information, determine the advantages and disadvantages associated with the use of different digital transmission facilities and use this book as a self-learning text. For data communications and network engineers, telecommunication professionals, as well as students of telecommunications and networking courses. It is also a superb reference for network managers and LAN administrators.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 280 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (June 16, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471983586
• ISBN-13: 978-0471983583
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,777,310 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good description of Sonet and SDH, June 11, 2000

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Laurent REMMY - See all my reviews

This review is from: High Speed Digital Transmission Networking: Covering T/E-Carrier Multiplexing, SONET and SDH (Hardcover)

This book is interresting for those who are beginning to work with SDH or Sonet Networks and includes a part on synchronization. It is a practical book who does not go too much theoretically in complicated concepts.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars ..., November 6, 2001

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"aryoba" (West Haven, CT United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: High Speed Digital Transmission Networking: Covering T/E-Carrier Multiplexing, SONET and SDH (Hardcover)

This book is intended to focus on a digital transmission discussion. For any digital transmission discussion (either high speed or low speed), one of the most important issue is sychronization. I see this sychronization as blood flow in human body, controlled by heart (clock source). Sychronization is so important that every digital transmission discussion would be meaningless without discussing it. Since this book is intended as a preliminary to more advanced broadband topics, I think sychronization dicussion rewards at least one special chapter in this book.

I found sychronization discussion in this book was little. The author only described clocking, timing, and synchronization as sub chapter with little discussion of slip, jitter, and wander concept. For beginner to try to understand sychronization as fundamental of broadband telecommunications, the discussion was not deep enough. I found sychroniztion discussion in "Engineering Networks for Sychronization, CCS 7, and ISDN" by P. K. Bhatnagar would be more informative for beginner than this book.

I also found that almost every time the author was derailed in presenting the T/E carrier itself. I think this book should focus extensively on T/E carrier and not other topics. Instead the author "confused" readers (especially beginners) with mixing ISDN, SONET, and SDH into discussion. I think the author should discuss synchronization and t/e carrier deeper first in at least (maybe) 7 chapters before entering discussion of ISDN, SONET, SDH, and other more advanced broadband telecommunications; in order not to confuse beginner readers.

I think the only "real discussion" in this book are chapter 6, 7, and 9. This three chapters are focused on the heart of t/e carrier itself. I think the author did a quite good job in the explaining. I think only these three chapters makes this book a quite worthwhile (and deserves 3-star rate rather than 2).

<(...)BR>I think this book would be more suitable for professionals who already have tastes of t/e carrier rather than beginners. If this book has more coverages, it would be a great book for both experiences and beginners. I expect the third edition (if would be any) would become more extensive and have more coverages.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars t/e carrier book, April 25, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: High Speed Digital Transmission Networking: Covering T/E-Carrier Multiplexing, SONET and SDH (Hardcover)

This book decribes quite good the T1/E1 subject. However the T3 section is very limited, and the E3 is not mention.