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Guide to Telecommunications Technology
This comprehensive introduction to Telecommunications provides in-depth explanations of transmission technology, media, topology, protocols, hardware, signaling, switching, and multiplexing. It includes a survey of the current industry and regulatory environments surrounding telecommunications. This text will focus on the concepts of telecommunications
and will include practical hands-on projects are included when applicable.
1. Telecommunications Overview
2. Principles of Telecommunications Technology
3. The Evolution of Telecommunications Technology and Policy
4. The Public Network
5. Customer Premise Equipment and Applications
6. Signaling and Switching
7. Data Networking Fundamentals
8. Physical Transmission Media
9. Wireless Transmission Services
10. Network Access and Transmission Methods
11. Data Network Connectivity
12. Telecommunications and the Internet
13. Information Security
14. Convergence of Voice, Video and Data
Appendix A: Codes and Character Sets
Glossary
Index
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