Controller-Based Wireless LAN Fundamentals
Authors: Jeff Smith, Jake Woodhams, and Robert Marg
Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Cisco Press (October 2010)
ISBN – 10: 1-58705-825-1
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There have been thousands of books written about telecom over the last 135 years or so. Some of those books are thoroughly researched and well …
Author: Chris Jackson
Paperback: 528 pages
Publisher: Cisco Press (June 2010)
ISBN – 10: 1-58705-352-7
ISBN – 13: 978-1-58705-352-8
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Reviewed by Ray Horak, Technology Editor
Thesaurus of Claim Construction
Authors: Robert C. Kahrl and Stuart B. Soffer
Paperback: 1030 pages
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Authors: Shannon McFarland, Muninder Sambi, Nikhil Sharma, and Sanjay Hooda
Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Cisco Press (April 2011)
ISBN – 10: 1-58714-227-9
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Authors: Tim Szigeti, Kevin McMenamy, Roland Saville, Alan Glowacki
Softcover: 592 + xxiv pages
Publisher: Cisco Press (2009)
ISBN-13: 978-1-58705-593-5
List Price: $60.00
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Reviewed by Jeff Owen, Independent IT Consultant
Implementing Cisco IP Switched Networks (SWITCH)
Authors: Richard Froom, Balaji Sivasubramanian, and Erum Frahim
Hardcover: 560 pages
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Internet Technologies Handbook
Author: Mark Miller
Paperback: 955 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience (April 13, 2004)
ISBN-10: 0471480509
ISBN-13: 978-0471480501
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Fax, Modem and Text for IP Telephony
Authors: David Hanes and Gonzalo Salguiero
Paperback: 600 pages
Publisher: Cisco Press (June 21, 2008)
ISBN-10: 1587052695
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Cisco Networking Simplified (Second Edition)
Authors: Jim Doherty, Neil Anderson, and Paul Della Maggiora
Illustrator: Nathan Clement
Softcover: 432 pages
Publisher: Cisco Press (December 2007)…
Securing the Borderless Network: Security for the Web 2.0 World
Author: Tom Gillis
Softcover: 168 pages
Publisher: Cisco Press (March 2010)
ISBN – 10: 1-58714-129-9…
Horak has created a full course in a single book that will give the reader more overall knowledge of telecommunications and data communications than most practitioners working in the field today.
Webster’s New World Telecom Dictionary
Author: Ray Horak
Paperback: 568 pages
Publisher: Webster’s New World (October, 2007)
ISBN-10: 047177457X
ISBN-13: 978-0471774570
List Price: $29.99
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Cisco Unified Presence Fundamentals provides an excellent overview.
There are a lot of good books on the subject of fiber optics. The vast majority of them are highly technical and written by and for engineers or physicists. When it comes to books written for technicians the pickings are slim.
Videoconferencing is one of the most rapidly developing technologies and certainly an attractive and compelling network application. The benefits include enhanced communications and collaboration, increased productivity, reduced travel and associated costs, and shortened time to decision.
Passive Optical Network (PON) network access technology was the subject of intense research for more than a decade before it finally emerged from the labs in 1998 in the form of a set of physical layer specifications for an ATM-based PON. That first specification was ratified by the ITU-T within the G.983.1 standard.
This book appears to contain everything you could possibly want to know about Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) operations, signaling and management, excepting perhaps the individual bits in packet and label headers. There is so much here that it’s a good place to start a major study of the topic. Master this book and nobody will be able to bluff you when the talk turns techy.
The case for IPv6 is compelling, including increased address space, ease of autoconfiguration and tight integration of mobility options. As IP networks evolve there is no doubt it eventually will replace IPv4. In fact many Asian nations are deploying it now, in large part to alleviate pressure on v4 address space caused by explosive growth of their mobile wireless networks.
There is a lot of buzz around fixed mobile convergence (FMC) these days. As is often the case with a hot new concept, tens if not hundreds of industry experts have written many thousands if not a few million words on the subject, explaining the fundamentals and elaborating on the nuances.
Densely written, this volume evenly balances the theory with the practice. The first half gets deep into the technical details, from the physical construction of fibers and couplers to the light signaling formats and and data frames that carry information. The second half looks at the practical aspects, with a thorough chapter on computing the power budget and optimal input power for an optical link.
I am not in the habit of reviewing established books but some are worthy and have a long shelf life. Cabling certainly fits that description. It is an excellent resource for IT managers and supervisors who need to understand copper and fiber cabling architectures, standards, project design principles, installation methods, test and troubleshooting techniques, and certification criteria. Although it is not a how-to installation and repair guide, many will benefit from the detailed explanations of cables, pathways, wiring closets, components, tools and testers.
Not long ago the title of this book might not have made much sense. Now with WLANs practically everywhere, the tide of VoIP couldn’t avoid the Wi-Fi connection. If your wired network will be dealing with VoIP you’ll eventually see that traffic on the air, too.
I’m quite certain that between them the nine authors (Chandra, Dobkin, Bensky, Olexa, Lide, Dowla, Nasisuri, Moore and Poor) know a lot about wireless networking, but I doubt they know it all. I do know that after reading much of this book I don’t know it all.
Webster’s New World Telecom Dictionary
Author: Ray Horak
Paperback: 568 pages
Publisher: Webster’s New World (October, 2007)
ISBN-10: 047177457X
ISBN-13: 978-0471774570
List Price: $29.99
Review …
The subject of VoWLAN is a tough one to get your mind around as it involves the convergence of two evolving technologies, VoIP and Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). VoIP is rapidly replacing circuit-switched voice in the public switched telephone network (PSTN), where most of the kinks have been worked out, and is also making inroads into the premises.
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