The Second Edition of this critically-acclaimed text continues the standard of excellence set in the first edition by providing a thorough introduction to the fundamentals of telecommunication networks without bogging you down in complex technical jargon or math. Although focusing on the basics, the book has been thoroughly updated with the latest advances in the field, including a new chapter on metropolitan area networks (MANs) and new sections on Mobile Fi, ZigBee and ultrawideband. You ll learn which choices are now available to an organization, how to evaluate them and how to develop strategies that achieve the best balance among cost, security and performance factors for voice, data, and image communication.

The Second Edition of this critically-acclaimed text continues the standard of excellence set in the first edition by providing a thorough introduction to the fundamentals of telecommunication networks without bogging you down in complex technical jargon or math. Although focusing on the basics, the book has been thoroughly updated with the latest advances in the field, including a new chapter on metropolitan area networks (MANs) and new sections on Mobile Fi, ZigBee and ultrawideband. You'll learn which choices are now available to an organization, how to evaluate them and how to develop strategies that achieve the best balance among cost, security and performance factors for voice, data, and image communication.

Preface.Chapter 1. Introductory Concepts.Chapter 2. Signals Convey Intelligence.Chapter 3. Quality of Services and TelecommunicationImpairments.Chapter 4. Transmission and Switching: Cornerstones of aNetwork.Chapter 5. Transmission Aspects of Voice Telephony.Chapter 6. Digital Networks.Chapter 7. Signaling.Chapter 8. Local and Long-Distance Networks.Chapter 9. Concepts of Transmission Transport.Chapter 10. Data Communications.Chapter 11. Enterprise Networks I: Local Area Network.Chapter 12. Enterprise Networks II: Wide Area Networks.Chapter 13. Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs).Chapter 14. CCITT Signaling System No. 7.Chapter 15. Voice Over Packets in a Packet Network.Chapter 16. Television Transmission.Chapter 17. Community Antenna Television (Cable Television).Chapter 18. Cellular and PCS Radio Systems.Chapter 19. Advanced Broadband Digital Transport Formats.Chapter 20. Asynchronous Transfer Mode.Chapter 21. Network Management.Appendix A: Review of Fundamentals of Electrivity withTelecommunication Applications.Appendix B: A Review of Mathematics for TelecommunicationApplications.Appendic C: Learning Decibles and Their Applications.Appendix D: Acronyms and Abbreviations.Index.