Telecommunications Essentials, Second Edition, provides a comprehensive overview of the rapidly evolving world of telecommunications. Providing an in-depth, one-stop reference for anyone wanting to get up to speed on the $1.2 trillion telecommunications industry, this book not only covers the basic building blocks but also introduces the most current information on new technologies. This edition features new sections on IP telephony, VPNs, NGN architectures, broadband access alternatives, and broadband wireless applications, and it describes the technological and political forces at play in the world of telecommunications around the globe.
Topics include
- Communications fundamentals, from traditional transmission media, to establishing communicationschannels, to the PSTN
- Data networking and the Internet, including the basics of data communications, local area networking, wide area networking, and the Internet and IP infrastructures
- Next-generation networks, including the applications, characteristics, and requirements of the new generation of networks that are being built to quickly and reliably carry the ever-increasing network traffic, focusing on IP services, network infrastructure, optical networking, and broadband access alternatives
- Wireless networking, including the basics of wireless networking and the technologies involved in WWANs, WMANs, WLANs, and WPANs
Table of Contents:
About the Author xxi About LIDO xxiii Acknowledgments xxv Introduction: Understanding the Broadband Evolution xxix Part I Communications Fundamentals 1 Chapter 1: Telecommunications Technology Fundamentals 3 Transmission Lines 3
Types of Network Connections 11
The Electromagnetic Spectrum and Bandwidth 11
Analog and Digital Transmission 18
Multiplexing 23
Political and Regulatory Forces in Telecommunications 33
Chapter 2: Traditional Transmission Media 41 Twisted-Pair 44
Coaxial Cable 51
Microwave 54
Satellite 61
Fiber Optics 73
Chapter 3: Establishing Communications Channels 83 Establishing Connections: Networking Modes and Switching Modes 83
The PSTN Versus the Internet 100
Chapter 4: The PSTN 103 The PSTN Infrastructure 103
The Transport Network Infrastructure 114
Signaling Systems 129
Intelligent Networks 135
SS7 and Next-Generation Networks 138
Part II: Data Networking and the Internet 143 Chapter 5: Data Communications Basics 145 The Evolution of Data Communications 145
Data Flow 152
The OSI Reference Model and the TCP/IP Reference Model 165
Chapter 6: Local Area Networking 173 LAN Basics 173
LAN Characteristics 176
LAN Interconnection and Internetworking 187
Chapter 7: Wide Area Networking 201 Circuit-Switched Networks 203
Packet-Switched Networks 215
Chapter 8: The Internet and IP Infrastructures 245 Internet Basics 245
Internet Addressing and Address Resolution 268
The Organization of the Internet 284
IP QoS 295
What’s Next on the Internet 303
Part III: The New Generation of Networks 309 Chapter 9: IP Services 311 The Evolution to IP Services 311
IPT 313
IPTV 342
VPNs 345
Chapter 10: Next-Generation Networks 383 The Broadband Evolution 384
Multimedia Networking Requirements 389
The Broadband Infrastructure 409
Next-Generation Networks and Convergence 411
The Next-Generation Network Infrastructure 418
Chapter 11: Optical Networking 451 Optical Networking Today and Tomorrow 451
End-to-End Optical Networking 456
The Optical Edge 471
The Optical Core: Overlay Versus Peer-to-Peer Networking Models 473
The IP+Optical Control Plane 483
The Migration to Optical Networking 488
Chapter 12: Broadband Access Alternatives 489 Drivers of Broadband Access 489
DSL Technology 492
Cable TV Networks 509
Fiber Solutions 522
Wireless Broadband 529
Broadband PLT 530
HANs 534
Part IV: Wireless Communications 547 Chapter 13: Wireless Communications Basics 549 A Brief History of Wireless Telecommunications 550
Wireless Communications Regulations Issues 553
Wireless Impairments 554
Antennas 556
Wireless Bandwidth 560
Wireless Signal Modulation 560
Spectrum Utilization 563
Chapter 14: Wireless WANs 579 1G: Analog Transmission 581
2G: Digital Cellular Radio 586
2.5G: Enhanced Data Services 592
3G: Moving Toward Broadband Wireless 597
Beyond 3G 611
4G: Wireless Broadband 612
5G: Intelligent Technologies 614
Chapter 15: WMANs, WLANs, and WPANs 617 WMANs 618
WLANs 638
PANs 660
Chapter 16: Emerging Wireless Applications 687 The Handset Revolution 688
Mobile IP 693
The IP Multimedia Subsystem 696
Mobile Gaming 702
Mobile Video 706
Mobile TV 707
Mobile Content 712
Glossary 715 Index 819
About the Author :
Lillian Goleniewski is Founder and President of the LIDO Organization, Inc., an internationally acclaimed provider of education, information, and advisory services in the area of telecommunications technologies, services and networks.
Ms. Goleniewski lectures extensively on telecommunications technology and management topics throughout the world. She is the author and creator of LIDO Telecommunications Essentials® (www.telecomessentials.com). Ms. Goleniewski’s seminars and eLearning series have been conducted on an international basis since 1984, and are offered throughout Asia, Australia/New Zealand, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, North America and South America.
Prior to forming the LIDO Organization, Ms. Goleniewski held the position of telecommunications operations manager at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the research and development arm of the U.S. utility industry. Before joining EPRI, Ms. Goleniewski was vice-president of operations for a San Francisco-based telecommunications consulting firm.
Ms. Goleniewski graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. She holds a B.A. in psychology and has completed numerous post-graduate studies in information technologies as well as psychology. Ms. Goleniewski was the recipient of a NSF Award to conduct research in the area of human perception and information processing.
