Essential Guide to Telecommunications, The

Completely updated and now in its sixth edition, The Essential Guide to Telecommunications is the world's top-selling, nontechnical guide to the fast-changing telecommunications industry. Writing in plain, easy-to-understand language, telecom expert Annabel Z. Dodd demystifies today's most significant telecom and networking technologies, standards, and architectures. She introduces leading providers worldwide, explains where they fit in a fast-changing marketplace, and presents their key strategies. Extensive updates to this edition include new coverage of Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV), extensive new wireless updates (including LTE), and updates to telecom/network security threats and countermeasures. Coverage includesComputing and enabling technologies associated with modern telecommunicationsLANs, data centers, and VoIP PBXsCompetition, industry structures, and regulationCarrier networksBroadband and wide area networksThe InternetMobile and Wi-Fi networks, including 5G and LTE Advanced, and much moreThe Essential Guide to Telecommunications, Sixth Edition, is the ideal single source resource for every student who needs to understand this crucial industry.