The New McGraw-Hill Telecom Factbook

By David A. Garbin and Joseph A. Pecar

This title provides an introduction to the basics of telecommunications. There is also reference to mobile telecommunications as well as information on the Telecommunications Act of 1996. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071351639
• ISBN13: 9780071351638
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Length: 823 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.1" x 2.2" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

The Factbook is a Career-Saver!

This insightful work brings the divergent worlds of voice and data together. It provides a clear view of converging information technologies and implications for business processes. The Factbook is an indispensable guide to sound management decision-making.Our telecommunications group has adopted the Factbook as its principal desk reference. And when it's needed, it's needed badly, so we each have a copy.The Factbook is our go-to survival tool in today's information network jungle!...

MUST HAVE REFERENCE

The New McGraw Hill Telecom Factbook 2d Edition by Joe Pecar and Dave Garbin is one of the best reference books I have ever used.It is long overdue and a must have reference on your shelf. It addresses subjects that other authors seem to treat only slightly if at all. The authors ability to explain complex subject s in a clear easily understandable manner is unique. The many illustrations and diagrams are usable by both lay persons and engineers alike. This would have been an excellent text to have had available for my college courses. This book is a key reference in my program office and I continually need to add more copies.I recommend the reading and use of this factbook to all professionasl and laymen alike who are serious about understanding the modern complex world of Telecommunications and Information Systems. Norman D Jorstad, Telecom and Information Systems Engineer and Program Manager.

New Telecom Factbook Clearly Technical Success

The New McGraw Hill Telecom Factbook, 2d Edition, by Joe Pecar and Dave Garbin is a technically exact and easily readable guide for students, managers, and other non-technical readers. As a senior manager for a major IXC, I found The New Telecom Factbook succinctly provides industry-accepted terminology in a useful way for both telecommunications managers and engineers. This book will help acclimate many non-engineering people entering the telecommunications field by providing simple and precise definitions of emerging technology and terms that are technically exact, yet easily understandable for non-technical readers. The New Telecom Factbook provides telecommunications managers, users, and professionals with a single, up-to-date reference with for new technology, performance metrics, and market alternatives. Having previously used the earlier edition of The Telecom Factbook to teach telecommunications courses, it's clear that the authors have again produced an excellent tutorial that is easily suitable for graduate-level courses in information technology and telecommunications systems tracks. Thorough presentations of complex material will systematically allow students to become familiar with industry terminology and key concepts. Detailed figures and excellent technology taxonomy charts further provide those without prior engineering or mathematical backgrounds with easy-to-follow roadmaps that cover all telecommunications fundamentals. The book also introduces many complex capabilities including DS1/DS3 (T1/T3) asynchronous multiplexing; SONET synchronous multiplexing; modulation schemes used in digital subscriber link (DSL) and cellular wireless services; Internet technologies; and many other technical topics essential for success in our emerging and converging telecommunications environment.

The New McGraw-Hill TELECOM Factbook

Joe Pecar has done it again with the second edition, and surpassing his excellent first edition of McGraw-Hill's best selling Telecommunications Factbook. And, just in time. I work in the Militarily Critical Technologies Program and have practically worn out my copy of the first edition. The new edition is written in the same straight forward layman's language, so you don't have to have an advanced degree in engineering to understand it. I particularly like his diagrams; for example, the overview figure illustrating packet data network IP transport alternatives and the illustration of the taxonomy of data services. The acronym list and the glossary alone are worth the price of the book.Landgrave T. Smith, Jr. Chairman, Information Security Technologies Working Group 23 January 2001

Author's Comments

In his last public speech, noted Nobel Prize winner and leading Manhattan Project member Isidor Isaac Rabi said, "Science, for its progress, its understanding and so on, depends so much on truth and on clarity. And the question is: Are we living in a society where truth and clarity are an important element of our culture?" We placed Rabi's thought-provoking statement on the third page of our book because it so clearly expresses what we, as authors, strove to accomplish.In any technical book, nothing is more important than accurate, factual information, or in Rabi's words - technical truth. Unfortunately, particularly in introductory books, inadequate scope, oversimplification, and shallow or incorrect definition and explanations of key technologies deny readers the factual understanding they invest their time to learn. And, if accuracy is paramount, clarity ranks a close second in terms of desirable introductory technical book attributes. Books comprehensible only by scholars or technologists with existing in-depth knowledge and mathematical prowess, are of little help to business people and individuals that make up the majority of those who must use today's advanced technologies. The principal objective of our updated book remains to provide a reliable, comprehensive introduction and insightful perspectives into all modern telecommunications services and underlying technologies. A second objective-no less important than the first-is to employ a presentation style easily understood by government and commercial telecommunications planners, managers, users, and professionals who do not have the time to sift through multiple publications, complex formulae, and mathematics only to be forced to draw their own conclusions regarding technology, performance, and market alternatives.We treat all important telecommunications services and technologies, but the quantity of information is limited to that needed for complete understanding. In addition, rather than just addressing topics individually, expert interpretations provide a valuable grasp of "bottom line" relationships among emerging services, technologies, and industry standards. Simplicity of presentation style does not sacrifice the ability to familiarize readers with industry terminology and essential concepts-which is often the case with introductory material. To accomplish this, we systematically present basic definitions as part of explanations of larger concepts. This equips readers not only with terminology, but also with rationale behind real-world applications, a tremendous advantage for thorough understanding and memory retention.In this respect, perhaps the feature of the original "The McGraw-Hill Telecommunications Factbook" contributing most to its popularity and effectiveness is the rich array, quality and clarity of its figures. Using over 240 figures, the new book goes far beyond simply identifying and defining panoplies of services and technologies. Inimitable technolog