The Cable and Telecommunications Professionals' Reference

Volume 2 of TERB 3ed covers the convergence of telephony and data transport, including wireless networks. Now that data is becoming the predominant source of traffic more efficient multiplexing schemes and more flexible control methods are needed in the transport network, such as giving the customer the ability to call for bandwidth on demand. With the development of control methods for switched data services it is now recognised that improved ways to control the transport network are possible and standards initiatives are taking place to establish and improve the network control layer. Detailed explanation of propagation in wireless and optical fibre systems requires a substantial amount of mathematics, also covered in this volume. For each of the math chapters there is an explanation of why the mathematics is important, where it is applied and references to other chapters.

Goff Hill

Part 1; Chapter 1 Voice Transmission, Stuart D.Walker, RouzbehRazavi; Chapter 2 Data Transmission, Stuart D.Walker, EmilioHugues-Salas, RouzbehRazavi, TahminaAjmal; Chapter 3 Digital Video Transmission, John CharlesWoods; Chapter 4 Coding, M. D.Macleod; Part 2 Transmission Media; Chapter 5 Optical Fibers, TakisHadjifotiou; Chapter 6 Optical Fiber Transmission, PaulUrquhart; Chapter 7 Electromagnetic Waves, J. H.Causebrook, R. V.Goodman; Chapter 8 Radio Wave Propagation, MarkHolker; Chapter 9 Antennas, MartinSmith; Part 3 Network Technologies; Chapter 10 Synchronous Optical Networks and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy, Mark Matthews, Goff Hill; Chapter 11 Next Generation Synchronous Digital Hierarchy, Ken Guild; Chapter 12 Legacy Packet-Switched Data Overlay Networks, Matthew R. Thomas, Paul A. Veitch, David K. Hunter; Chapter 13 Multiprotocol Label Switching, Martin Reed; Chapter 14 Next Generation Ethernet, Alan McGuire;