Telecommunications Primer: Signals, Building Blocks and Networks

by E. Bryan Carne

An overview that shows how to implement electronic highways that will allow information to be created. The book covers the spectrum of services, from those that use low-speed data and voice, to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0132061295
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

I have had this book for 4 years.

It has been a corner stone in my telco career education, despite my degree. Someone said that this book is part of their class work. Great, I've been saying that it should be for 3 1/2 years.Ditto on the other positive statements/reviews. I enjoy reading and have searched for THE book on telecommunications for 7 years. If you are "in" or part of telco, this IS 'THE' book. READ: good diagrams; good descriptions; and good interrelations of systems.The only thing I don't look forward to, is highlighting the new edition I have to buy.

A must have although quite technical.

This is the textbook for one of my classes. It is a well written book that is quite technical in some points. An example "X.25 Packet network: provides low-speed, switched, duplex, data-only transport. Best solution when poor quality transmission links are present." Parrot this when anyone asks you what an X.25 network is and you'll look like a star. The only problem is to understand how all that fits into a concept which you can grasp your brain around. This book is excellent to have if you already are a technician and/or have a engineering/science background. If you're new to the industry, you'll find yourself drowning in technical terms and concepts. The book also takes side trips in wave-form analysis which the reader could only fully understand if he or she happens to have an oscilliscope handy. Other parts are quite dry and you'll be searching quite a long time for an oasis of understanding. In short, this book is great to have if you need to move beyond the more user friendly books and need a concise reference book. BTW: I can't recommend highly enough "Newton's Telecom Dictionary." As a "dictionary" it quite more readable (and enjoyable) than this Telecommunications "Primer." (Note the liberal definition of "primer"!)

Outstanding Overview of Telecom Details!

I really enjoyed reading Telecommunications Primer. Without a doubt it is one of the best introductory texts on the subject of emerging telecom technologies available.The author provides a level of detail that is missing in most other "off the shelf" telecom/datacom books, without overdoing the math/EE "gore". This book is perfect for someone with a science/Engineering background who needs to get up to speed on voice and datacom quickly.

The book what I want.

To whom it may concern, This is the book what I want in the course entitled "Telecommunications Networks" I taught in the university. The content is good. However, there exists some typing faults. I'd like to see a newer version without them. Thank you.