Networks and Telecommunications: Design and Operation - Hardcover

Clark, Martin P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0471927996 ISBN 13: 9780471927990

Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell, 1990

Synopsis

This book aims to be a guide to give a basic understanding of how different types of network operate and therefore how they can be made to co-exist, interwork or co-operate to serve a given user's needs. The book aims to be a day-to-day encyclopaedia on the techniques and administrative controls concerned with telecommunications and how these techniques evolved. The book is intended to be of interest to students and academics, telecommunications and computer practitioners and technical managers.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Telecommunications network design and operation is now widely regarded as an issue of business management as well as electrical engineering. In this updated edition, Martin Clark, a pioneer of this perspective, applies it to the increasingly complex and diverse realm of voice, data and multimedia networks. Written in an accessible style and clearly illustrated throughout, this is a basic, practical and intuitive insight into modern network engineering with sections including:
∗ Technical accounts of modern voice, data and multimedia networks
∗ Coverage of ATM, B–ISDN, SDH, mobile radio and satellite networks, Internet and TCP/IP
∗ Practical aspects of running and setting–up networks
∗ Running a business based on telecommunications
A text specifically for readers new to the whole subject of telecommunications, and professional telecommunications managers who need an introduction and reference work on all aspects of technology, operational techniques and regulation.

About the Author

Martin P. Clark is a freelance consultant in telecommunications, IT, business management and strategy. A veteran of the public telecommunications services industry, Martin planned international telephone networks for British Telecom International in the early 1980s when it was still part of the UK Post Office. Having experienced the privatisation of British Telecom and market deregulation in the UK, Martin moved to Germany in the early 1990s, where he wrote the business plan and project managed the first fixed network competitor to Deutsche Telekom. The company became Vodafone Germany. Since the late 1990s, Martin has been involved in a number of successful technology start–ups, as well as a NASDAQ IPO, and amassed a huge breadth of technological experience, covering data networking, broadband, radio and mobile networks. Martin works as an independent consultant in telecommunications, IT and business strategy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley–Blackwell
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0471927996
• ISBN 13: 9780471927990
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 656