Webster’s New World Telecom Dictionary

Ray Horak047177457X, 9780471774570, 9780470225714

Webster’s New World Telecom Dictionary , by Ray Horak, is a comprehensive telecommunications dictionary of more than 7,500 terms critical to understanding voice, data, video, and multimedia communications system and network technologies, applications, and regulation. Given the convergence of computing and communications, the book also effectively is a computer dictionary with a telecom focus. It is thoroughly researched, highly objective, absolutely accurate, and includes just about every essential term, abbreviation, acronym, contraction, initialism, and portmanteau you might encounter in the telecom and datacom domains. Although the book is a technical dictionary, Horak’s plain-English, commonsense style yields definitions that are as thoroughly understandable to the business professional or student as they are to the electrical engineer. In fact, many entries are encyclopedic in nature, discussing applications and issues. Horak also injects a bit of his wry sense of humor, sprinkling occasional telecom trivia and marginally related definitions that will have you smiling and chuckling to yourself, but not to the point that they detract from what is an important book on a serious subject. An instant classic, Webster’s New World Telecom Dictionary is the one and only telecom dictionary you will need. It also makes a perfect companion to Horak’s Telecommunications and Data Communications Handbook, published by Wiley-Interscience in October 2007.

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Table of contents :
Webster’s New World Telecom Dictionary……Page 6
ABOUT THE AUTHOR……Page 10
CREDITS……Page 14
CONTENTS……Page 16
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS……Page 18
INTRODUCTION……Page 20
Telecom Dictionary A-Z……Page 22
Symbols……Page 24
Numbers……Page 25
A……Page 40
B……Page 74
C……Page 100
D……Page 146
E……Page 176
F……Page 200
G……Page 224
H……Page 240
I……Page 258
J……Page 290
K……Page 294
L……Page 298
M……Page 322
N……Page 352
O……Page 368
P……Page 380
Q……Page 424
R……Page 430
S……Page 448
T……Page 494
U……Page 528
V……Page 540
W……Page 556
X……Page 570
Y……Page 578
Z……Page 580
Appendix A: Standards Organizations and Special Interest Groups (SIGs)……Page 584