McGraw-Hill Illustrated Telecom Dictionary
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| Rating | : | 4.43 (675 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0071372016 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 847 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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A good reference source for professionals and students. (Choice 2003-01-01) . King, emeritus, University of Georgia Clayton's dictionary will go a long way toward helping anyone, professional communications workers to beginning students, in the daunting search for the meaning of terms in telecommunications. The CD-ROM offers an additional 1,000 pages of cross-referenced material (brief articles from other McGraw-Hill publications) in searchable PDF format. The CD-ROM can be used with both PC and Macintosh platforms, although an alias in the Macintosh version is not linked correctly, so some knowledge of Mac file structure will help get
. He is currently an IP Subject Matter Expert for SBC Communications in Dallas, Texas. Mr. The definitions have been written by Jade Clayton, a telecommunications/networking professional with 13 years of experience in various facets of the telecommunications industry including manufacturing, traffic, switching, private line, outside plant construction, inside plant construction, broadband transport, cable TV, LAN n
lacking in substance and difficult to use I work as a technical writer for a telecommunications company that markets enhanced directory assistance in the wholesale and retail markets. Since my primary audiences are engineers and technicians, I write about and have to understand the technical aspects of how switches, telephony, and telecommunication. 3rd IS EVEN BETTER THAN 2nd A Customer I have both the 1st and 2nd edition of this book as well as the 3rd. I also have a copy of the ever popular Newton's Telecom Dictionary 17th edition, and the 15th. I use them both. Suprised, I have read the other reviews on this book and none do a comparison with Newtons Telecom Dictionary so here goesNewto. "Unreliable, inaccurate" according to Dan Ryan. The business and regulatory definitions in the book are uniformly terrible. For instance, "a LATA is, simply put, an areacode". That's just not true. At one time, some LATAs coincided with areacodes but many didn't and almost none do now. "A common carrier is defined as a carrier whose prices are regulated"
This is a straight-forward technical dictionary, featuring nearly 4,000 concise definitions, many with detailed diagrams and photos. This third edition moves beyond traditional telecom and networking topics to embrace and explain the fast moving world of internet telephony.. Designed to be clear and understandable to even complete novices, the first two editions of the book provided a gateway for thousands into the acronym-filled world of telecom