X-DSL Architecture

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Summary: xdsl presentation
Review: Reading from the point of view of an implementer of operation support systems for telcos, I found this book to be the best on DSL technology that I have come across.

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Summary: Best so far
Review: Reading from the point of view of an implementer of operation support systems for telcos, I found this book to be the best on DSL technology that I have come across.

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Summary: Save your money
Review: The best book I have ever had regarding xDSL network access systems. The architectural designs and practical considerations are explained in a perfect manner. It is a must for your library if you are somehow related to xDSl and Internet engineering.

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Summary: Save your money
Review: This book is a waste of money. Lots of errors(typos, wrong labels on diagrams and figures, etc.). I didn't expect this book to go into the mathematical and technical issues in detail, but even the highly simplified and glossed-over discussions that are in the book is a jumble of confusion. This book _might_ be useful to someone who is only interested in knowing the buzzwords and jargons of DSL, but it is of no use to anyone who actually wants to learn the guts of the technology.

If you want a good intro to DSL, go to Virata's site and download the file "Personal Broadband Services: DSL and ATM". This gives a much, much better written overview to DSL, and it's free. No, I don't work for Virata; I found this after I got fed up with this book and did some research on-line.

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Summary: xdsl presentation
Review: This book is more of a general introductory Telecom book to different access solutions, and does so in a hasty manner and in a not so well organized manner.

The book lacks smooth transition from introductory to DSL topics, and lacks focus.

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Summary: not enough books avilable about DSL, but it is the best.
Review: Wellm I bought Three books about DSL , this one was the best of them all. the other books I bought was " Understanding the Digital Subscriber Line" and " ADSL/VDSL Technologies" both books all the time talks about Technical Data and specifications, have lots of sophisticated equations. I am not saying that they are bad, but the xDSL architecture is the best choice for me, but still if you need very deep information you gotta have one of ther two books. in my case I returned the Book "Understanding ... " to Amazon and I kept the other two books.