Broadband Crash Course

P. J. Louis, P.J. Louis9780071380607, 0071380604

Get the right answers for smart broadband decision making – from financial, management and marketing to equipment, applications, and protocols. Broadband Crash Course examines broadband delivery in terms of markets and business opportunities. Writing with the surety and thoroughness of a telecom insider and business executive, P.J. Louis clearly and painlessly demonstrates how broadband services are delivered over today’s complex telecommunications infrastructure, minus the heavy-duty math. This one-of-a-kind guide is your chance to learn about:* Service bundling (voice, Internet access, e-mail, etc.) across all major network types (wireless, IP, cable, satellite, LANs, etc.)* Benefits of wireline and wireless broadband technologies* Service bundling and provisioning across the wireline and wireless broadband networks* The Local Loop and its future* Coaxing more applications from the technologies you’ve got* Business models that have proven themselves in the real world* 3G wireless, the wireless Internet, softswitching, M-commerce: how will they affect your business?

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Contents……Page 8
Preface……Page 14
Introduction……Page 15
WHAT IS A BROADBAND NETWORK?……Page 16
TRANSMISSION FACILITIES……Page 17
TRANSMISSION TYPES: ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES……Page 19
MICROWAVE/ RADIO ( CELLULAR, PCS, ETC. )……Page 26
EVALUATING TRANSMISSION FACILITIES……Page 35
TRANSMISSION MEDIA: DATA RATES……Page 37
NETWORK SIGNALING……Page 40
THE OSI NETWORK MODEL……Page 48
THE SS7 MODEL AND THE SS7 LAYERS……Page 49
TRANSITIONING EXISTING NETWORK TECHNOLOGY: ISSUES……Page 53
SUMMARY……Page 54
TRANSMISSION CONCEPTS……Page 56
BASIC IMPAIRMENTS TO VOICE TRANSMISSIONS……Page 58
DIGITAL AND ANALOG: WHAT ARE THEY?……Page 67
MULTIPLEXING……Page 70
DIGITIZING THE ANALOG SIGNAL: PULSE CODE MODULATION……Page 73
OTHER MODULATION TECHNIQUES……Page 83
TRANSMISSION: LOCAL VERSUS LONG DISTANCE……Page 86
ROUTING METHODOLOGIES……Page 89
ROUTING ISSUES……Page 96
SUMMARY……Page 97
OPTICAL HISTORY……Page 98
UNDERSTANDING THE PHYSICS OF FIBER OPTICS……Page 100
THE STRUCTURE OF A FIBER OPTIC TRANSMISSION FACILITY……Page 102
GRADES OF FIBER……Page 105
FIBER OPTIC USES……Page 110
OPTICAL TRANSMISSION FORMATS……Page 113
SYNCHRONOUS OPTICAL NETWORK ( SONET)……Page 115
SYNCHRONOUS DIGITAL HIERARCHY ( SDH)……Page 118
SDH AND SONET: IN PERSPECTIVE……Page 119
WAVE DIVISION MULTIPLEXING ( WDM)……Page 120
WDM/ DWDM CAPACITIES……Page 122
FREE- SPACE OPTICS……Page 124
IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES……Page 126
SUMMARY……Page 128
LOCAL LOOP……Page 130
DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER LINE TECHNOLOGIES: XDSL……Page 133
TYPES OF XDSL……Page 140
ADVANTAGES OF xDSL……Page 144
COAXIAL CABLE……Page 146
HYBRID FIBER COAXIAL CABLE……Page 147
SUMMARY……Page 150
WIRELESS BROADBAND TECHNOLOGIES……Page 152
WIRELESS BROADBAND IMPLEMENTATIONS……Page 153
CELLULAR/ PERSONAL COMMUNICATIONS SERVICES ( PCS)……Page 154
WIRELESS BROADBAND IMPLEMENTATIONS: CELLULAR AND PCS CORE DISCUSSION……Page 159
3G WIRELESS SERVICE IMPLEMENTATIONS……Page 172
SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS……Page 181
SATELLITE SIGNALING APPLICATIONS……Page 190
SATELLITE WIRELESS BROADBAND……Page 191
SATELLITE INTERNET ISSUES……Page 192
WIRELESS LOCAL LOOP ( WLL)……Page 195
SUMMARY……Page 204
NETWORK SIGNALING FORMATS……Page 206
MULTI- FREQUENCY ( MF) SIGNALING……Page 208
SIGNALING SYSTEM 7 ( SS7) / COMMON CHANNEL SIGNALING 7 ( CCS7)……Page 211
ASYNCHRONOUS TRANSFER MODE ( ATM)……Page 214
FRAME RELAY……Page 227
TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL/ INTERNET PROTOCOL ( TCP/ IP)……Page 231
SUMMARY……Page 235
COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS: BUSINESS SEGMENTS……Page 236
WIRELINE TELEPHONE NETWORKS……Page 237
WIRELESS CARRIER NETWORKS……Page 247
THE INTERNET: A BROADBAND BUSINESS SPACE……Page 256
WHAT IS THE INTERNET?……Page 257
INTERNET NETWORK ARCHITECTURE……Page 258
NEW TYPES OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS SERVICE PROVIDERS……Page 259
THE KEY TO CREATING SERVICES……Page 262
SUMMARY……Page 263
BROADBAND CONVERGENCE……Page 266
WIRELESS BROADBAND: 4G……Page 268
THE LOCAL LOOP BANDWIDTH BARRIER……Page 269
THE INTERNET……Page 270
WHO WILL USE BROADBAND SERVICES?……Page 272
SUMMARY……Page 275
A – ACRONYMS, DEFINITIONS, AND TERMINOLOGY……Page 276
B – BIBLIOGRAPHY……Page 326
INDEX……Page 328
ABOUT THE AUTHOR……Page 337