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Summary: A Great Reference on DSL even if not perfect
Review: it's usually a good idea to clearly define your target audience, otherwise you might wind up writing a book that suffers from an identity crisis. this book is a good example of when this mistake happens.don't get me wrong: there's good information in this book. but going from chapter 1 to chapter 6 is a great leap in terms of focus, depth and material. i don't think it's reasonable to start from not knowing what communication theory is and trying to understand Decision-Feedback Equalization. this is a very difficult subject by itself, and trying to waive some theory into this context is not effective.
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Summary: The standard reference
Review: Starr and Cioffi's book was enormously valuable as we wrote our own book, DSL, a Wiley Tech Brief. It's not easy going, but this is the primary source. Cioffi developed the DMT standard that is nearly universal in the ADSL world, and Starr has led the leading technical committee. Their knowledge makes a difference. The CD enclosed has thousands of pages of original technical documents.
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Summary: Good book for advanced readers
Review: There is a myriad of information here, but it never discusses SDSL, the flavor that is becoming the choice of businesses. The CD included with the book has 3 file drawers worth of white papers, etc from the IEEE T1 committee. It is worth buying the book just for what is on the CD, but do not expect every flavor of DSL to be discussed.
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Summary: No SDSL
Review: There is a myriad of information here, but it never discusses SDSL, the flavor that is becoming the choice of businesses. The CD included with the book has 3 file drawers worth of white papers, etc from the IEEE T1 committee. It is worth buying the book just for what is on the CD, but do not expect every flavor of DSL to be discussed.
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Summary: An excellent reference book for xDSL modem designer
Review: This book covers the subject of DSL thoroughly and in great depth. It is very up to date. The disks that are included are a valuable set of standards submissions that would be hard to find in most libraries.
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Summary: Good book for advanced readers
Review: This is a good introduction to xDSL technologies IF you already are experienced in digital communications. If you aren't versed in topics such as Decision Feedback Equalization, the treatments here are too terse, and you will need a back up reference. On the other hand, if you have some education in the given topic, (QAM, trellis coding...) this book shows nicely how it fits into the DSL picture. If you come from outside the telecom industry, this book also gives a nice low level explanation of the telephone network and how DSL technologies overcome its impairments to deliver high data raes.
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Summary: not enough books avilable about DSL, good one
Review: Well I bought Three books about DSL , this one was one of them. the other books I bought was "xDSL Architecture" and " ADSL/VDSL Technologies" " the Understanding and ADSL/VDSL 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.
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