Understanding Digital Subscriber Line Technology

By Thomas Starr

Book Overview

xDSL technologies offer telephone companies a way to deliver high-speed Internet access and other applications, across the copper phone lines they've already installed. In this book, an exceptional team of xDSL experts introduces everything an engineer, manager or marketing professional needs to know to get started with DSL.KEY TOPICS: Coverage includes xDSL applications, network architecture, network management, network operations, communications, protocols, standards and regulatory issues. The authors also cover the underlying technologies -- including 1.5 Mb/s high-bit-rate DSL (HDSL), 6 Mb/s Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), and 52 Mb/s Very High Bit Rate DSL (VDSL). DSL technologies are revolutionary, and whether you're new to them or simply in need of a convenient reference, you'll find this book invaluable. MARKET: Telecommunications engineers, managers and marketing professionals at phone companies, other service provider firms, and equipment vendors; as well as many corporate telecommunications managers.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0137805454
• ISBN13: 9780137805457
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Pearson
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 2.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The standard reference

Starr and Cioffi's book was enormously valuable as we wrote our own book, DSL, a Wiley Tech Brief. It's not easy going, but this is the primary source. Cioffi developed the DMT standard that is nearly universal in the ADSL world, and Starr has led the leading technical committee. Their knowledge makes a difference. The CD enclosed has thousands of pages of original technical documents.

A Great Reference on DSL even if not perfect

Although certainly not perfect, as it is not very well unified, it is one of the best books available on DSL.Even though it appears as if each author wrote their seperate section and it was never well integrated, there is information here on the DSLs that is not available in one place anywhere else. A wonderful reference on modem design, the issues of deploying DSL, and the standards process.

An excellent reference book for xDSL modem designer

A very good book on understanding the DSL technology. The authors give a very detailed and excellent explanations and comments on many detailed aspects of DSL modem design, although I don't always agree on some discussions.

An excellent overview of a very timely subject

This book covers the subject of DSL thoroughly and in great depth. It is very up to date. The disks that are included are a valuable set of standards submissions that would be hard to find in most libraries.

This DSL book paid for itself in one week.

This DSL book was recommended to me by some of the experts in the T1E1.4 DSL standards group. It includes a CD-ROM with 900+ documents including hundreds of the top technical papers presented at T1E1.4 meetings from 1989-1998. One of the papers on the CD-ROM was exactly what I needed to avoid an expensive problem. The book goes into much more detail about DSL technology than ADSL Computer Communications by Gorwalski or ADSL/VDSL Principles by Rauschmayer. The explanations are complete and accurate. The authors have taken the time to explain every aspect of DSL. The text is full of formulas, figures, diagrams, charts, tables, etc. it's great. If you're looking for a DSL book, this is the one I recommend.