Understanding Telecommunications and Lightwave Systems

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The up-to-date edition of the bestselling guide to the basics oftelecommunications and digital technology Understanding Telecommunications and Lightwave Systemspresents a nontechnical treatment of how voice, video, andmultimedia can simultaneously travel over today's evolvingtelecommunications systems. This updated Third Edition provides acomprehensive overview of the telecommunications field as well as adetailed introduction to the latest lightwave technology. The author's examination of recent techniques and developingtechnologies in telecommunications includes: * Third-generation cell phones with microbrowsercapabilities * Changes in the global PCS network * Optical switching and transmission parameters * Lightwave systems and Dense Wavelength DivisionMultiplexing * A new chapter (Chapter 17: The Internet) that examines thismultimedia structure and the network economy it has created * Satellite communications, new transcontinental carriers,lightwave undersea systems, and other advances toward improvingglobal communication Understanding Telecommunications and Lightwave Systems isthe perfect introduction for anyone whose work requires afundamental understanding of current developments intelecommunications, as well as for students or inquiring readerswho want an overview of telecommunications and the excitingtechnology of lightwave communications.

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John G. Nellist

Themen in »Understanding Telecommunications and Lightwave Systems«

Communication Technology Electrical & Electronics Engineering Elektrotechnik u. Elektronik Kommunikationstechnik Lichtwellenleiter Optical Communications Optische Nachrichtentechnik Telekommunikation

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"...provides a non-technical overview of contemporarytelecommunications systems." (SciTech Book News, Vol. 26,No. 2, June 2002)
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