Telecommunications: transmission & network architectures, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999 Transmission and Network Architecture

An updated translation of the original French publication published by Masson in 1996. This work exposes step by step the basic concepts which control the implementation of a telecommunication network. In applying the international standard organisation (ISO) model the author gives a pragmatic description of a coherent, progressive build-u p of the telecommunication system. This should permit students of telecommunications and information sciences, as well as practitioners, to rediscover the subject within the list of standards and regulations which comprise the subject of telecommunications. The author is responsible for telecommunications at the French Ministry of Defence, and lectures at the Conservatoire National d'Arts et Métiers.

1 Representation of Data.- 1.1 General.- 1.2 Types of Information.- 1.3 Information Coding.- 1.4 Digitisation of Information.- 1.5 Internal Data Representation.- 2 Data Transmission.- 2.1 Basic Elements of a Data Link.- 2.2 Classification of Transmission Modes.- 2.3 Transmission Supports.- 2.4 Error Processing.- 2.5 Digital Signal Coding Techniques.- 2.6 Baseband Transmission.- 2.7 Broadband Transmission.- 2.8 The Junction.- 2.9 Link Control.- 3 Optimisation of Transmission.- 3.1 General.- 3.2 Quantification of Traffic.- 3.3 Optimisation of Line Usage.- 3.4 Optimisation of Data to be Transmitted…..83.- 3.5 Optimisation of Transmission Protocols.- 4 The Network Concept.- 4.1 General.- 4.2 Network Topologies.- 4.3 Switching Techniques Ill.- 4.4 Modes of Relationship.- 4.5 Implementation Mechanisms in a Network.- 4.6 Network Security.- 5 Network Architecture.- 5.1 The Reference Model.- 5.2 Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP).- 5.3 Manufacturer Architectures.- 6 Evolution Towards High Transfer Rates.- 6.1 General.- 6.2 Frame Relay.- 6.3 Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM).- Abbreviations.

Telecommunications is an ever-expanding field of increasing importance for business Completely revised and updated version of the French publication Pragmatically examines not just the problems but the means to solve them