Understanding Telephone Electronics

by Steve Winder, Stephen J. Bigelow, Joseph J. Carr

Book Overview

Throughout its history, Understanding Telephone Electronics has been, by far, one of the most popular books on telecommunication electronics in the trade, electronic distribution, and educational... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750699442
• ISBN13: 9780750699440
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Length: 367 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

I use this for work

I bought this book for work - It provides a good working base for how telephones work. We live in an age where we have a right to dial tone and very seldom give any thought how the telephone and its network really work. This is not a book for the novice though you really must want to understand the phone and the phone system from a technical prospective. I keep it on my desk at work for a reference. I recommend that you also get a copy of Newtons Telecom Dictionary as well.Newton's Telecom Dictionary, 25th Edition: Telecommunications, Networking, Information Technologies, The Internet, Wired, Wireless, Satellites and Fiber

Good book on the basics of telephone electronics

If you are coming from a position of having no knowledge of how the fields of electronics and telephony merge and you need an accessible book on the basics, this book certainly fits the bill. I think lots of people are disappointed by this book because they are expecting something more from a standpoint of engineering modern projects involving telephony, and this book's content is wedged half way between technician and engineering-level. To understand why this book is put together this way you need to know its history. The first edition came out in 1983 and was sold at Radio Shack back when they sold electronics parts and kits for hobbyists and technicians, not wireless phones. Thus, its origins are still evident even in its fourth edition. There is very little mathematics in this book, and what is there consists of very simple calculations. Most everything is explained via block diagrams and then detailed diagrams of the electronics within each block. You'll need to remember your basic electronics before diving into this book - the operation of diodes, transistors, and opamps - because the illustrations make heavy use of them and the book assumes you know their usage and operation. Each chapter has a quiz at the end of it and the answers to all of the questions are in the back of the book. The book fills a needed niche - no other book I know of really addresses this subject - but the fourth edition is now six years old and it could use an update.

A Good Book

The title is accurate. If you want to learn about telephone electronics, this is a great book. It's easy to read, comprehensive and well structured. No, it doesn't go into great detail about state of the art modems or attempt to teach the finepoints of wireless telephony, but it does cover basic fax, modem and telephone electronics very well.

Whos calling me at this time of the day?

It didn't matter who was calling me - I knew how the telephone worked. When it rang (or chirped) I knew why and - more important - how to stop it. I answered the telephone. Simple as that.

GREAT BOOK

From the beginig to the advanced level of the telephone as a machine and as a part of a net. Good to learn how a telephone is inside yesterday and today.