The Essential Guide to Telecommunication

Completely updated and now in its sixth edition, The Essential Guide to Telecommunications is the worlds top-selling, nontechnical guide to the fast-changing telecommunications industry.   Writing in plain, easy-to-understand language, telecom expert Annabel Z. Dodd demystifies todays most significant telecom and networking technologies, standards, and architectures. She introduces leading providers worldwide, explains where they fit in a fast-changing marketplace, and presents their key strategies. Extensive updates to this edition include new coverage of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), extensive new wireless updates (including LTE), and updates to telecom/network security threats and countermeasures.   Coverage includes Computing and enabling technologies associated with modern telecommunications LANs, data centers, and VoIP PBXs Competition, industry structures, and regulation Carrier networks Broadband and wide area networks The Internet Mobile and Wi-Fi networks, including 5G and LTE Advanced, and much more The Essential Guide to Telecommunications, Sixth Edition, is the ideal single source resource for every student who needs to understand this crucial industry.