FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS
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| Format: | Manuscript Book |
| Language: | English |
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Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
PRENTICE-HALL, INC.
1977
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| Edition: | Second Edition |
| Series: | Prentice-Hall series in automatic computation
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Communications revolution
- The crystal ball
- Part 1: Telecommunications and its uses
- Categories of telecommunication links
- Analog versus digital transmission
- Speeds of channels
- Intelligent exchanges
- Pushbutton telephones and voice response
- Video telephones
- Cable television and its potential
- Switched data networks
- Data radio
- Mobile radio transceivers
- Satellite antennas on the rooftops
- High velocity money
- Electronic mail and messages
- New breeds of carriers
- Part 2: Synthesis
- Corporate communications, an unmanaged resource
- Computerized networks
- Terminals in the home
- The wired city
- Global reach
- The law and politics
- A future scenario
- Part 3: Technology
- Radio channels
- Cables & waveguides
- Communications satellites
- Digital channels and PCM
- Signal compression
- Packet switching
- Time-division switching
- TDMA
- Packet radio
- Options in network design.
Future developments in telecommunications 
TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND THE COMPUTER