A reference guide to telecommunications with over 300 articles on technology, architectures, terms and more. Includes a CD-ROM with the complete text of the encyclopedia.

This easy-to-read, soup-to-nuts encyclopedia for everyone in the telecommunications field is now more current than ever, putting readers in touch with all the major technologies and architectures through more than 250 detailed entries. 450 illustrations.

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"This encyclopedia provides a thorough examination of concepts, technologies, policies, training, and applications of ICT in support of economic and regional developments around the globe"--Provided by publisher.

"Contains 275 tutorial articles focused on modern telecommunications topics. The contents include articles on communication networks, source coding and decoding, channel coding and decoding, modulation and demodulation, optical communications, satellite communications, underwater acoustic communications, radio propagation, antennas, multiuser communications, magnetic storage systems, and a variety of standards"--V.1, p. v.

If you want to grasp the full length and breadth of the rapidly developing computer telephony field, this book is the place to start. Author Richard Grigonis thoroughly explains even the most abstruse ideas in a concise manner that is aimed at all kinds of readers -- students, business executives, telecom managers, call center supervisors or entrep