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Telecom Crash Course, Second Edition

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I recently joined a Telecom company as a Marketing Manager, and wanted to acquaint myself with the technologies in our industry, so I picked up this book. BIG MISTAKE! I assumed "Crash Course" was meant for beginners like me - with little or no knowledge of telecom technology. Again, big mistake. This book is very poorly organized, doesn't take time to explain important concepts clearly, and it even lacks a glossery of terms (which is pretty bad considering this is suppose to be an introduction to a complicated topic). Take my advice and take a pass on this one.

Great book for everything Telecom. Covers past, current and future technologies. If you are a tech nut like me, buy this book and read it cover to cover.

I really enjoyed this book, especially the anecdotes in the introduction, but I can't realy see alot of applications for a "crash-course" that is this long. There are many situations I can envision where someone would need to learn about telecom networks quickly, but they probably wouldn't need to know many of the intricacies that Shepard deals with and they almost certainly wouldn't be interested in his anecdotes and discussion of undersea cable laying.

However, I don't know of any other comprehensive book like this so it may be your only option. Either way I certainly enjoyed reading it and intend to buy his other books, but to read at my leisure.

Very well written and entertaining introduction to telecommunications. The author gives a great overview of how all of the parts fit together and why the standards were evolved and the problems that they solved. Interesting historical tidbits thrown in here and there. This is a good book for those who are new to the industry or if you want to get the big picture of how everything fits together. This is the best introduction to telecommunications text that I've read. Afterwards, you would go on to read/research the details about specific standards.

I work in I.T., but after 10 years in healthcare and taking a job at a communications company, this really helped me get up to speed on how the phone system actually works.