A panel of experts from around the world contributed to this authoritative handbook covering the essential aspects of this most dynamic field of communications and networking activity. The Telecommunications Handbook provides basic principles and definitions, details the tremendous advances in technology, outlines implementation techniques, and discusses the outstanding issues and key challenges faced by communications and networking specialists. Exhaustive in scope and packed with diagrams, tables, and illustrations, this is an indispensable reference for engineers, analysts, managers, and students involved in telecommunication and networking activities.

Kornel Terplan, Patricia A. Morreale

TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICES, REGULATION, AND STANDARDIZATION, Section Editor Floris van den Broek, AT&T Trends in Telecommunications, Kornel Terplan Regulation Standardization BASIC COMMUNICATION PRINCIPLES, Section Editor Rolf Stadler, Columbia University, New York Telecommunication Services Engineering, Jean-Pierre Hubax and Simon Zanty Signaling inTelecommunications Systems, Steve Minzer Telecommunications Services on Broadband Networks, Hisaya Hadama Mobile and Wireless Telecommunication Networks, Michele Zorzi COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY, Section Editor Patricia Morreale FDDI/CDDI and Real-Time Communications, Biao Chen Multiple Access Communications Networks, Izhak Rubin Digital Subscriber Line Technologies, John (Toby) Jessup SONET and SDH, Henry W. Owen VIDEO COMMUNICATIONS, Section Editor Dan Minoli, Teleport Communication Group (TCG), Staten Island, New York An Overview of Digital Video and Multimedia, Technologies and Applications, Dan Minoli, Emma Minoli and Larry Sookchand ITU-T H.320/H.323, Dan Minoli, Emma Minoli and Larry Sookchand MPEG-2 Standard Details, Dan Minoli, Emma Minoli and Larry Sookchand QoS Issues and Video over the Internet, Dan Minoli, Emma Minoli and Larry Sookchand