Telecom Made Simple

This book explains how various telecommunications systems and services work. It is a well-known fact that telecommunication technology and services are continually changing. Authors and industry veterans Lawrence J. Harte and Avi Ofrane understands these changes in the industry and provides descriptions and diagrams of typical interconnection arrangements for pubic and private telephone systems, data networks, inter-exchange systems, wireless, billing and customer care systems. If there were one book you could select for a big picture of the telecommunications industry, Telecom Made Simple is the best choice. Literally thousands of people who need to understand how telecommunications systems operate and the services that they offer have found previous works of these authors to be extremely valuable. Telecom Made Simple provides details of the latest telecommunications technologies and systems. Some of the most important topics featured are: - Identifies the latest telecommunications systems and their market trends. - Compares the different types of systems using easy to understand criteria. - Identifies new communication options available to companies and what systems they may upgrade or replace. - Explains telecommunication services that can be used to improve your job or enhance business operations. -Provides market assessments and trend analysis for the leading telecommunications industries. - Describes emerging technologies. - Gives an understanding of the economics associated with building and maintaining telecommunications systems. - Provides semi-technical descriptions of the key technologies used by telecommunications systems. - Gives an introduction to customer care and billing systems. - How telephone competition is increasing the universal deployment of digital telephone systems.