Information Telecommunications: Networks, Products, & Services

Here is a state-of-the-art telecommunications analysis for everyone who must match up internetworking technologies and applications ... written by one of the innovators and pacesetters of the industry.Robert K. Heldman provides a detailed overview of progress in the information networking arena. Focusing on which applications are best suited for each type of interconnection technology, he fully explores the potential of copper-wire and fiber-optic ISDN, plus T-1, T-3, X.25, frame relay, SMDS, ATM, STM, and other LAN interconnection options as applied to establishing new narrowband, wideband, and broadband public and private networks.A firm believer that technological development can't be separated from tactical implementation, Heldman addresses key marketing and financial questions raised by the new technologies. He also suggests how firms can use telecommunications now to position themselves for the twenty-first century.