Telecommunications Primer: Signals, Building Clocks and Networks

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.

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"!)

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.

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.