McGraw-Hill Telecom Portable Consultant

By: P.J. Louis

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Survival Guide to Understanding -- and Profiting From -- Broadband

Get the right answers for smart broadband decision making-- from financial, management and marketing to equipment, applications, and protocols. "Broadband Crash Course examines broadband delivery in terms of markets and business opportunities. Writing with the surety and thoroughness of a telecom insider and business executive, P.J. Louis clearly and painlessly demonstrates how broadband services are delivered over today's complex telecommunications infrastructure, minus the heavy-duty math. This one-of-a-kind guide is your chance to learn about:

* Service bundling (voice, Internet access, e-mail, etc.) across all major network types (wireless, IP, cable, satellite, LANs, etc.)
* Benefits of wireline and wireless broadband technologies
* Service bundling and provisioning across the wireline and wireless broadband networks
* The Local Loop and its future
* Coaxing more applications from the technologies you've got
* Business models that have proven themselves in the real world
* 3G wireless, the wireless Internet, softswitching, M-commerce: how will they affect your business?

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Acknowledgments	p. v
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xiv
What is a Broadband Network?	p. 1
Transmission Facilities	p. 2
Transmission Types: Advantages and Disadvantages	p. 4
Metal	p. 4
Fiber Optics	p. 5
Multiplexing Techniques	p. 8
A Growing Problem: Pole Space/Conduit Space	p. 8
Microwave/Radio (Cellular, PCS, etc.)	p. 11
Wireless Transmissions (Cellular, PCS Bands, LMDS, etc.)	p. 15
Wireless Transmission Ranges	p. 16
Evaluating Transmission Facilities	p. 20
Transmission Media: Data Rates	p. 22
Analog versus Digital	p. 23
Network Signaling	p. 25
Multi-Frequency Signaling	p. 27
Common Channel Signaling (CCS)	p. 29
Common Channel Signaling (CCS) Network Architecture	p. 31
The OSI Network Model	p. 33
The OSI Layers	p. 33
The SS7 Model and The SS7 Layers	p. 34
Transitioning Existing Network Technology: Issues	p. 38
Summary	p. 39
Transmission Concepts	p. 41
Basic Impairments to Voice Transmissions	p. 43
Attenuation Distortion	p. 43
Phase Distortion	p. 44
Noise	p. 46
Echo	p. 50
Singing	p. 51
Digital and Analog: What Are They?	p. 52
Multiplexing	p. 55
Digitizing the Analog Signal: Pulse Code Modulation	p. 58
Pulse Amplitude Modulation (PAM)	p. 58
Coding	p. 62
Other Modulation Techniques	p. 68
Differential Pulse Code Modulation (DPCM)	p. 68
Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation (ADPCM)	p. 69
Continuously Variable Slope Delta Modulation (CVSD)	p. 69
Vector Quantizing Code (VQC)	p. 70
High-Capacity Voice (HCV)	p. 70
Transmission: Local versus Long Distance	p. 71
Long Distance	p. 71
Local Loop	p. 72
Routing Methodologies	p. 74
Hierarchical Routing/Alternate Routing	p. 74
Dynamic Routing	p. 78
Packet Switching	p. 80
Routing Issues	p. 81
Summary	p. 82
Fiber Broadband Network Technologies	p. 83
Optical History	p. 83
Understanding the Physics of Fiber Optics	p. 85
The Structure of a Fiber Optic Transmission Facility	p. 87
Fiber Optic Light Sources	p. 89
Grades of Fiber	p. 90
Multimode	p. 91
Single Mode Fiber	p. 94
Fiber Optic Uses	p. 95
Optical Transmission Formats	p. 98
Synchronous Optical Network (SONET)	p. 100
Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH)	p. 103
SDH and SONET: In Perspective	p. 104
Wave Division Multiplexing (WDM)	p. 105
WDM/DWDM Capacities	p. 107
Free-space Optics	p. 109
Implementation Issues	p. 111
Summary	p. 113
Metallic Broadband Technologies	p. 115
Local Loop	p. 115
Digital Subscriber Line Technologies: xDSL	p. 118
Reasons for xDSL	p. 119
Deploying xDSL	p. 122
Components of xDSL	p. 123
Types of xDSL	p. 125
High Data Rate Digital Subscriber Line (HDSL)	p. 126
Very High Data Rate Digital Subscriber Line (VDSL)	p. 127
ISDN Digital Subscriber Line (IDSL)	p. 127
Single Digital Subscriber Line (S-DSL)	p. 127
Symmetric Digital Subscriber Line (SDSL)	p. 127
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL)	p. 128
Rate Adaptive Digital Subscriber Line (RADSL)	p. 129
Advantages of xDSL	p. 129
Disadvantages of xDSL	p. 131
Coaxial Cable	p. 131
Hybrid Fiber--Coaxial Cable	p. 132
Metal versus Fiber: Decision Process	p. 135
Summary	p. 135
Wireless Broadband Technologies	p. 137
Wireless Broadband Implementations	p. 138
Cellular/Personal Communications Services (PCS)	p. 139
Cellular Carriers	p. 139
Personal Communications Services (PCS)	p. 141
Wireless Broadband Implementations: Cellular and PCS Core Discussion	p. 144
What Is 3G?	p. 144
Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA)	p. 145
Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)	p. 150
Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA)	p. 151
3G Wireless Service Implementations	p. 157
High-Speed Circuit Switched Data (HSCD)	p. 158
General Packet Radio Service (GPRS)	p. 159
Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE)	p. 160
Wideband CDMA	p. 162
Code Division Multiple Access 2000 (CDMA2000)	p. 164
Satellite Communications Systems	p. 166
What Is a Satellite?	p. 167
Satellite Spectrum Bands	p. 169
Satellite Classifications	p. 173
Other Satellite Classifications	p. 173
Satellite Signaling Applications	p. 175
Satellite Wireless Broadband	p. 176
Satellite Internet Issues	p. 177
Wireless Local Loop (WLL)	p. 180
Local Multipoint Distribution Service (LMDS) and Local Multipoint Communications Service (LMCS) Carriers	p. 183
LMDS/LMCS Radio Impairments	p. 184
LMDS/LMCS Services	p. 186
Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service (MMDS) Carriers	p. 186
Summary	p. 189
Network Signaling Formats	p. 191
Intersystem Signaling (Internetwork Signaling)	p. 193
Multi-Frequency (MF) Signaling	p. 193
Signaling System 7 (SS7)/Common Channel Signaling 7 (CCS7)	p. 196
SS7 Benefits	p. 197
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)	p. 199
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) Signaling Description	p. 201
ATM Advantages	p. 202
ATM Disadvantages	p. 203
ATM Cost--Benefit Discussion	p. 204
ATM and Its Role in the Future of Broadband	p. 205
ATM Mechanics	p. 206
Frame Relay	p. 212
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)	p. 216
TCP/IP Protocol Architecture	p. 217
Summary	p. 220
Commercial Applications: Business Segments	p. 221
Wireline Telephone Networks	p. 222
End Office	p. 224
Tandems	p. 224
Wireline Telephone Network/Traffic Structure	p. 225
Wireline Services--No Broadband	p. 230
Wireless Carrier Networks	p. 232
Cellular and Personal Communications Services (PCS)	p. 232
Cellular Carrier--Regulation	p. 232
Personal Communications Service (PCS) Regulation	p. 235
From the Perspective of the Cellular Carriers	p. 235
Cellular and PCS Network Concepts	p. 236
Cellular and PCS Broadband Services	p. 238
Satellite	p. 239
Satellite Wireless Broadband	p. 240
Wireless Local Loop	p. 240
The Internet: A Broadband Business Space	p. 241
What Is the Internet?	p. 242
Internet Network Architecture	p. 243
New Types of Telecommunications Service Providers	p. 244
The Key to Creating Services	p. 247
Summary	p. 248
Broadband Convergence	p. 251
Broadband Attributes	p. 253
Wireless Broadband: 4G	p. 253
The Local Loop Bandwidth Barrier	p. 254
The Internet	p. 255
Who Will Use Broadband Services?	p. 257
Summary	p. 260
Acronyms, Definitions, and Terminology	p. 261
Bibliography	p. 311
Index	p. 313
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