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Newton's Telecom Dictionary - Author: Harry Newton
Covering Telecommunications, Networking, the Internet, Computing, and Information Technology

Most dictionaries are updated every 10 to 20 years. Not this one. Newton and his staff update this dictionary every day of the year and issue a new, expanded, fixed, improved, and updated edition every year. This edition is current as of he February 2003, with over 1,350 new terms defined since the last edition.

What's new? This year telecom is passing some major milestones.

• There are more cell phones in the world than landlines.
  
• There'll be more WiFi wireless deployed than in any other year.
  
• More broadband connections will be installed than ever before.More industries will change their sales model from personal selling to Internet selling.
  
• More sales will be conducted on the Internet than in any other year.
  
• More calls will be answered and successfully handled by more call centers than ever before.
  
• More video, audio and data conference calls will be handled over the Internet than in any other year.
  
• More investors will tune into Internet web conferences to learn more about the companies they own.
  
• More new telecom technology will be deployed this year -- from gigabit Ethernet to SF1-5.
  
• And more companies will discover telecom and the Internet as keys to their customer service.

That's the good news. The even better news is that it's now easy to stay on top of this ever-changing industry. The 19th updated and expanded edition of the best-selling Newton's Telecom Dictionary explains all of these developments and rapidly evolving technology.

This book is the world's favorite reference book on telecom, data communications, networking, computing and the Internet, with sales exceeding 600,000 copies. With over 21,000 definitions the 19th edition of Newton's Telecom Dictionary weighs in at over four times larger than any other telecom and IT dictionary, and includes wireless, broadband, intranet, e-commerce and IT terms.

According to Discount Long Distance Digest, this dictionary "truly belongs on the bookshelf of everyone in the telecom industry. It's worth every penny, and is pound-for-pound the best telecom book we have seen."

Harry Newton, the author, deliberately wrote Newton's Telecom Dictionary not as a technical book, but as a business book. Newton explains technical concepts in non-technical language that anyone in business can understand. This has made the book an essential reference tool to anyone writing or reading sales proposals or managing telecom systems and services.

Includes 4 BONUS Sections:

1) 201 of the BEST MONEY SAVING TIPS Harry Newton's favorite ways to save on telecom, PC, and travel.
2) WHY IS IT SO HARD TO BUY? Insights for managers on the importance of putting customers first.
3) THE NEW WORLD OF TELECOM What made 2002 difficult as well as what's happening in 2003
4) DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING How to protect your computing and telecom resources.

About the Author: Harry Newton has spent 32 years studying, writing, lecturing, and investing in telecom and technology. He founded LAN (now Network), Teleconnect, Call Center, Computer Telephony, and Technology Investor magazines. He also founded the trade shows, Computer Telephony Conference and Exhibition (CT Expo) and Call Center Demo.

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Voice & Data Communications Handbook, Fifth Edition (McGraw-Hill Communication Series)

The Definitive Telecommunications Reference--Fully Updated

Understand cutting-edge telecommunication and networking technologies using this straightforward, real-world implementation guide. Fully revised to cover all of the latest transmission protocols, Voice & Data Communications Handbook, Fifth Edition covers all the bases-from analog transmission, VPNs, and LANs to DSL, CATV, WiFi, VoIP, and GSM. This authoritative volume covers the ins-and-outs of each vital topic, supplies practical examples and solutions, and provides helpful self-tests. You'll also find up-to-date information on regulatory standards, switches, routers, frame relay, and security procedures.

• Use new wireless technologies
• Understand the building blocks of analog transmission-bandwith, amplitude, and frequency
• Provide transparent communications using the OSI model and seven-layer architecture
• Comply with local and federal regulations and RBOCs
• Transmit information using routers, SS7, PBX, and KTS switches
• Send and receive data across TCP/IP, wireless, cellular, and optical systems
• Create a connection using a modem
• Connect to multiple VPNs and LANs using frame relay, ATM, and MPLS
• Deploy high-speed broadband access with cable modems, xDSL, and CATV
• Get details on VoIP, SIP, and voice over data services
• Increase bandwidth using IP telephony techniques and PBX equipment

Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary (Webster's New World)

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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Customer Review: A Better Source than the Internet!
Review by Vladimir Kaminsky Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary by Ray Horak is a comprehensive telecommunications dictionary of more than 4,600 terms essential to a clear understanding of voice, data, video, and multimedia communications system and network topologies, technologies, applications, and regulations. The book encompasses numerous volumes of materials in the area of telecommunications that can be only compared with information from the Internet.

Horak's background and experience allowed him to be an expert in many telecommunications areas. The book is the witness to this fact: it covers such simple technologies as twisted pair, such complex techniques as Passive Optical Networks, Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing; and such evolving technologies as WiMAX and MIMO. It is interesting to note that Horak presents dry facts of telecommunications reality with humor and historical references, making it easy to read and more attractive to readers. The book can amaze a reader by its thoroughness to cover various topics, provide references, describe symbols; and it reveals Horak's deep knowledge of the topics and ability to work with huge amount of sources. For an encyclopedic treatment of the subject and a perfect companion to this work, see Horak's Telecommunications and Data Communications Handbook, also published by Wiley in 2007. Horak is an independent telecom consultant. He is active in litigation support as a consulting expert and testifying expert, often in cases involving intellectual property such as patent, copyright, and trademark and service infringement. He has authored five telecom books and written of hundreds of technical articles, white papers, case studies, and solution briefs. Vladimir Kaminsky, PhD is a President of Practel, Inc, a consulting company that is specializing in advanced communications technologies and network design.

Customer Review: A valuable addition to your Telecom Library
I review books in my role as a VoIP & SIP trainer for TrainingCity.com. When students ask me what to buy, I always recommend that they have a technical dictionary close at hand. I am now recommending they have two, the old one and "Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary". I know it seems like overkill, but in fact these two books are both on my list of "must haves" for 2008. Webster's dictionary is focused, includes diagrams, and provides timely, accurate information. Buying two or more books is never easy, so I often suggest students speak with their managers and discuss buying a "team library" of books that can be shared by everyone in the group. Often companies have a book budget, it can't hurt to ask!