Introduction to Communications Technologies: A Guide for Non-Engineers

✍ Scribed by Stephan Jones, Ron Kovac

• Publisher: Auerbach Publications
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 278
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Most textbooks on this subject focus heavily on the mathematical perspective of communication. Today's managers do not need to know how to figure out the quantization process of an analog sample, they simply need to understand how the theory works-in plain English. Introduction to Communications Technologies: A Guide for Non-Engineers is a quick-read tutorial on telecommunications and network technologies for graduate and undergraduate students in management information systems and telecommunications management courses.While dealing with the engineering aspects of communication, the book provides a basic understanding of how things work, not how to design systems. Topics include systems, electricity, signaling, telephony, switching, wireless, CTI, and video. It also explains the important relationship between the two major languages spoken in the industry, voice and data, something not done in other texts. The material covered is the same as that presented in a graduate-level core technical course at one of the most respected Information and Communication Services programs in the country.Students will not need a technical background in order to gain the valuable knowledge that lies within these pages. Designed to provide students with a foundation of knowledge that will serve them well into their careers, Introduction to Communications Technologies: A Guide for Non-Engineers provides students with the tools necessary to become effective leaders of technology professionals.

✦ Table of Contents

Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Acknowledgments......Page 17
Preface......Page 19
Systems and Models of Communications Technologies: Shannon-Weaver, von Neumann, and the OSI Model......Page 21
Basic Concepts of Electricity......Page 33
Modulation and Multiplexing......Page 51
Signaling Formats, Multiplexing, and Digital Transmissions......Page 65
PSTN to CPE......Page 73
Circuit Switching, ISDN, ATM, and SS7......Page 89
Wireless Technologies: AMPS, GSM, TDMA, CDMA, Satellites, and Microwave Systems......Page 105
Packet Switching and Local Area Network Technology......Page 125
The Language of the Internet: TCP/IP......Page 145
New and Emerging Technologies......Page 165
The Wonderful World of Wireless......Page 185
Video Basics Outline......Page 201
Network Convergence Objectives......Page 217
Answer Key......Page 233
Glossary......Page 255
Index......Page 267