Dot-Dash to Dot.com: How Modern Telecommunications Evolved from the Telegraph to the Internet

✍ Scribed by Wheen, Andrew

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 312
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Telecommunications is a major global industry, and this unique book chronicles the development of this complex technology from the electric telegraph to the Internet in a simple, accessible, and entertaining way. The book opens with the early years of the electric telegraph. The reader will learn how the Morse telegraph evolved into an international network that spanned the globe, starting with the development of international undersea cables, and the heroic attempts to lay a trans-Atlantic cable. The book describes the events that led to the invention of the telephone, and the subsequent disputes over who had really invented it. It takes a look at some of the most important applications that have appeared on the Internet, the mobile revolution, and ends with a discussion of future key developments in the telecommunications industry.

✦ Table of Contents

Appendix B Baudot Code......Page 3
13.4 Terminals and handsets......Page 5
13.7 Internet applications......Page 9
13.9 Content......Page 11
13.10 Television......Page 13
13.12 Security......Page 15
13.13 Health concerns......Page 17
Cover......Page 1
10.2 World Wide Web......Page 2
Pictures......Page 14
Tables......Page 16
About the author......Page 18
10.11 Video......Page 19
10.13 Virtual worlds......Page 21
13.5 Service providers......Page 7
Appendix D Digital signal processing......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 20
Appendix H Internet Service Provider networks......Page 23
Appendix I The Internet address shortage......Page 24
Appendix J Virtual private networks......Page 26
Appendix K Internet voice services......Page 30
Appendix L IP television......Page 33
2 The telegraph goes global......Page 37
Appendix N Wideband CDMA......Page 40
Appendix O Network reliability......Page 43
Appendix P Availability......Page 46
3 A gatecrasher spoils theparty......Page 48
Chapter 1: The birth of an industry......Page 51
Chapter 2: The telegraph goes global......Page 52
Chapter 3: A gatecrasher spoils the party......Page 53
Chapter 4: Early telephone networks......Page 54
Chapter 5: Going digital......Page 56
Chapter 6: A bit of wet string......Page 57
Chapter 7: The last mile......Page 60
Chapter 8: Computers get chatty......Page 62
Chapter 9: The birth of the Internet......Page 64
Chapter 10: Life in cyberspace......Page 66
Chapter 11 : The mobile revolution......Page 68
Chapter 12: When failure is not an option......Page 70
Chapter 13: What comes next?......Page 71
Appendix D: Digital signal processing......Page 73
Appendix G: Fixed wireless access networks......Page 74
Appendix J: Virtual private networks......Page 75
Appendix M: GSM networks......Page 76
Appendix P: Availability......Page 77
Appendix Q: Error detection and correction......Page 78
Glossary......Page 79
Bibliography......Page 91
Index......Page 92
Dot-Dash to Dot.Com......Page 4
Figures......Page 12
1 The birth of an industry......Page 22
4 Early telephone networks......Page 65
5 Going digital......Page 83
6 A bit of wet string......Page 97
7 The last mile......Page 119
8 Computers get chatty......Page 128
9 The birth of the Internet......Page 142
10.1 Email......Page 154
10.2 World Wide Web......Page 155
10.3 Domain Name System (DNS)......Page 158
10.4 Search engines......Page 162
10.5 Bulletin boards, newsgroups, discussion groups, blogs and wikis......Page 164
10.6 Instant messaging and chat rooms......Page 167
10.7 Podcasting and RSS......Page 168
10.8 Peer-to-peer networks......Page 169
10.10 Voice......Page 171
10.11 Video......Page 172
10.13 Virtual worlds......Page 174
11 The mobile revolution......Page 177
12 When failure is not anoption......Page 188
13.1 Next generation networks......Page 196
13.3 Mobility......Page 198
13.4 Terminals and handsets......Page 200
13.5 Service providers......Page 202
13.6 Quality of Service......Page 203
13.7 Internet applications......Page 204
13.8 Cloud computing......Page 205
13.9 Content......Page 206
13.10 Television......Page 208
13.11 Payments......Page 209
13.12 Security......Page 210
13.13 Health concerns......Page 212
13.14 And finally .......Page 213
Appendix A Duplex telegraph......Page 215
Appendix B Baudot Code......Page 217
Appendix C Microphone wars......Page 220
Appendix D Digital signal processing......Page 222
Appendix E DSL technologies......Page 230
Appendix F Leveling up the playing field......Page 232
Appendix G Fixed wireless access networks......Page 234
Appendix H Internet Service Provider networks......Page 237
Appendix I The Internet address shortage......Page 238
Appendix J Virtual private networks......Page 240
Appendix K Internet voice services......Page 244
Appendix L IP television......Page 247
Appendix M GSM networks......Page 251
Appendix N Wideband CDMA......Page 254
Appendix O Network reliability......Page 257
Appendix P Availability......Page 260
Appendix Q Error detection and correction......Page 262
Introduction......Page 265
Chapter 2: The telegraph goes global......Page 266
Chapter 3: A gatecrasher spoils the party......Page 267
Chapter 4: Early telephone networks......Page 268
Chapter 5: Going digital......Page 270
Chapter 6: A bit of wet string......Page 271
Chapter 7: The last mile......Page 274
Chapter 8: Computers get chatty......Page 276
Chapter 9: The birth of the Internet......Page 278
Chapter 10: Life in cyberspace......Page 280
Chapter 11 : The mobile revolution......Page 282
Chapter 12: When failure is not an option......Page 284
Chapter 13: What comes next?......Page 285
Appendix D: Digital signal processing......Page 287
Appendix G: Fixed wireless access networks......Page 288
Appendix I: The Internet address shortage......Page 289
Appendix K: Internet voice services......Page 290
Appendix P: Availability......Page 291
Appendix Q: Error detection and correction......Page 292
Glossary......Page 293
Bibliography......Page 305
Index......Page 306