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Voice & Data Communications Handbook, Fourth Edition
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Voice and data communications expert Bud Bates once again brings you the most comprehensive and definitive reference covering the latest in networking and telecommunications technologies. Featuring all new material on wireless protocols, optical networking, and high-speed broadband services, this easy-to-understand resource contains comprehensive coverage of this fast-growing industry. You'll learn everything from basic concepts to practical implementation techniques on topics ranging from digital signaling and virtual private networks to frame relay and fiber optics. Straightforward and jargon-free, this updated edition is highly useful for anyone wanting to understand the latest advances in telecommunications and the rapidly evolving field of voice and data communications.

This book will show you how to:

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Wireless Broadband Handbook
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This book is about the evolution and emergence of the wireless world for the new millennium. Several changes are afoot in the wireless architectures including new standards, applications and technologies all rapidly coming to fruition. What we lack in this industry is a good business based book that describes the changes taking place, the protocols being developed and the products being introduced. This book will attempt to deal with these issues based on the business need, not strictly the technical aspects of the systems. Further, it will break the components apart in three ways:

What is all the hype about wireless communications? This new era technology convergence combines voice and data communications across untethered communications and switching systems. This new class of next generation products and protocols will provide interconnectivity no matter what architectural decision you made. If you are an "vintage voice communicator," the wireless world has considerable merit because the industry is far more mobile. If you are a "pioneering data user," then the future holds many future innovations and will tease you with the various implementations. If you are a "forward thinker," then the industry offers unheard of opportunities to connect anywhere and anytime. What is your preference?

The bottlenecks in the past were the different communications technologies selected by various providers and manufacturers. Bandwidth constraints created bottlenecks at the shared channel media. The applications were not ready but several essential ingredients have been developed to shake the cake into the mold. See where the growth is going to take off. Watch as a new form of Internet access emerges and unfolds before your very eyes. We believe that this one book will arm you with all the information needed to make valued business decisions on the technologies, applications and the past implementations. The author of this book is Regis J. "Bud" Bates.

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Optical Switching and Networking Handbook

For the engineering person, this may sound like the bible of optical networks and switching systems. Not so! This is not an engineering book and will not dig into the gory detail of bits and bytes, ohms and lamdas, etc. It will help an engineering person to understand the marketplace for the products and services that will be designed. It will also show you the application that the optical networks will satisfy. As I said however, this is not a technical book.

For the financial and business person, the title may have a tendency to scare you away. Please persevere and read on. This book was written for you so that you can understand the various developments and challenges to use or invest in the optical networks. Regis J. "Bud" Bates has written this with the simplest of terms and with some storyboards to make concepts more understandable. He also spent a significant amount of time in developing and shaping the business market strategies. If you are an investor or a VC who needs to understand the future demand for the products, then Bud has addressed that. If you are a Telecommunications manager who is looking for the services from providers, he has addressed that too!

What Optical Switching & Networking Handbook is about is the demystification process of the technologies. This optical networking book is part of a continuing series of books that are geared toward a specific market niche: Voice and Data Communications Handbook, Broadband Telecommunications Handbook, Fiber Optic Networking, Optical Switching and the forthcoming Broadband Wireless Handbooks. These will aid you in understanding the technologies without the "Techno Geek" jargon that is so common in our industry.

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GPRS: Global Packet Radio Services

New Arrival!

Without wasted words, telecom expert R. J. "Bud" Bates - whose earlier books are industry classics - clarifies the features, functions, and structure of lightning fast, always-on GPRS, the 2.5G technology setting the pace in handheld access. You get brilliantly clear answers to fundamental questions-

This unique volume gives you working information on GPRS and its applications. Heavily illustrated, and featuring x-ray-type coverage, GPRS reveals functions, layers, and architecture in a way that's most useful to those providing or applying GPRS services.

You get a straightforward, orderly presentation of how GPRS works, how it connects the Internet, and how to implement it. No matter whether you need answers on architecture or advanced interface issues, look inside to get the facts on:

o The complete layout of GPRS system architecture
o Function of GPRS elements
o All layers described, unpacked, and explained
o Interfaces--radio and MS-PCUSN, MS-SGSN, PCUSN-SGSN, SGSN-GGSN, and GGSN-PDN

There's no other guide that delivers GPRS anatomy, physiology, and function like this one. For an unequaled hands-on manual to this increasingly popular technology-one that can help you put services in place quickly and profitably-no guide but Bud Bates GPRS will do.