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Summary: Shallow and dated.
Review: Admittedly, I bought this book with one focus: learning about DSL -- but then the second topic (after ATM) listed on the book was DSL. DSL makes for 6 pages total in this book and the book says the modems will cost suppliers $1500 and therefore is skeptical about DSL. Therefore, I guess, the book doesn't even really bother to explain DSL, instead focusing more pages on ISDN. I just feel a book that claims on its cover that it "Covers all the hot technologies: Internet, wireless, ATM, DSL..." should do so. I didn't bother reading other sections since the DSL coverage was limited and inaccurate/dated.
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Summary: excelent for new users
Review: This is a great book for those users, companies and countries, which plan a full communications develepment process. It's a good guide.
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Summary: Excellent read, comprehensive yet understandable
Review: As a sales professional looking to enter the telecommunications field I have been looking for a good book which covers the fundamentals of the industry. Not only did I find that with this book, but this is one of the most well-written books of and non-fiction I have ever read.
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Summary: Best Book In The Business
Review: This is the best book in the whole telecommunications business. Although Chapter four discuss too much about the 1996 Telecommunication Act, this is a interesting book in plain English overall. This book helps me a lot in my job as a service engineer in a telephone carrier company. I recommend it to all of my new trainee.
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Summary: Good, high level overview from transport to signaling to regulatory.
Review: I picked up this book to get a good, high level grasp ontelecom as it is in 1998. That is exactly what I received. This bookcovered the important topics in telecom from transport to signaling to regulatory. I interned for an RBOC last summer and wish someone handed me this book then. It constantly incorporates topics and ideas from past chapters into the current chapter. Reinforcement is a great way to learn. Suffice it to say that my telecom internship this summer will be more informed because of this book. This book isn't an engineering manual for connecting ports on your DMS-100, but if you're in any way involved with telecom where you work, you'll appreciate this gentle, but thorough introduction to telecom. (Hopefully a future edition will cover the convergence of voice and data as this edition did not.)
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Summary: A great read--I couldn't put this book down!
Review: My new responsibility in my job is coordinating videoconferences. On a basic level, I can handle it, but I don't have the IT or telecom background that the experts in this industry have, so when it came to looking closely at the technologies in the vc industry, I found myself bewildered by the telecommunications and computer network factors. This book has helped me 100% in putting together "the big picture." Ms. Dodd clearly describes the past, present, and future structures and technologies in the telecom industry. Let me tell you, this book has brought me much relief!
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Summary: A must for anyone working into the telco field!
Review: As an analyst whose worked for both MCI and Winstar I think this book is a excellent buy for anyone working in the telecom field.If you haven't had a chance to take a telphony course, this book is a must!
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Summary: Super introduction to what's hot in telecom
Review: This book is a great introduction to the latest in telecommunications services. I'm using this book (along with Tanenbaum's Computer Networks) to educate our sales and marketing forces in the fundamentals of modern networking. An easy read.
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Summary: The best telecommunications overview I have ever seen.
Review: I have never commented on books or articles but this book is outstanding. The telecom info provided is accurate and up to date. The author has great insight and covers all major concepts of telecommunications.
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Summary: Very Informative with a Good Overview of the Industry
Review: All of the telecommunications information was great. There were some minor editing flaws, but my only main complaint is in regards to the FCC
regulations section. Ms. Dodd did a poor job of
keeping her political views out of this book; a
book about telecom, not politics. It had a strong Democratic slant to it. Although factual, the information presented was not unbiased in its selection of included content. This mixing of personal politics with "a begginers guide" gave me a bad impression about her as an author.
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