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Title: Telecom Convergence, 2/e : How to Profit from the Convergence of Technologies, Services, and Companies by Steven Shepard ISBN: 0-07-138785-4 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Contents look like a laundry list!
Comment: I purchased this book for my college class. Although it introduced me a broad concept of convergence, its poor organization gave me headaches whenever I needed quick references on certain topics.
I believe anyone who sees its contents would have a hard time figuring out if there is "any" relationship between subtitles. Some subtitles had no reasons to be typed bold, while others should've been typed that way. Worse yet, the author summarized only certain issues, while he ignored many others with no clear explanations.
Nonetheless, if you can endure such a disorganization, this book will be a gentle introduction to the field. Especially, Company Convergence Resources at the end of this book were quite useful for me.
Rating: 5
Summary: very nicely written
Comment: Nice coverage of topics- local loop, ISDN, T1 etc etc. As an earlier reader pointed out, there are some irritating typos, and some illustrations do not match up with the writing. But I enjoyed reading the book so much (great price, too) that I was willing to overlook these minor irritants.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good stuff, but really poorly edited
Comment: This book provided a good overview of telecom technology, but you have to work though lots of poor editing. For example, it reads "DWDM (discussed earlier) is a...". Unfortunately, DWDM has not been discussed earlier (as confirmed by the index in the back) and is not explained after that. DWDM is a pretty important topic and I'm sure they did plan to have it explained in some detail. The editor just seems to have left it out. It also has typos like saying "Technology A is superior to tech B, so tech B has been much more widely accepted in the marketplace." Huh? You're left wondering if the mistake is at the start of the sentence or the end.
I know this sounds like 2 minor examples, but there a lots of them in here and it makes this reading tougher than it should be. When you are trying to learn new material, having your source reference contain small mistakes is pretty frustrating.
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Title: Telecom Crash Course by Steven Shepard ISBN: 0071382135 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 25 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Telecom Management Crash Course : A Telecom Company Survival Guide (Crash Course) by P. J. Louis ISBN: 0071386203 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 01 June, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Broadband Crash Course by P. J. Louis, P.J. Louis ISBN: 0071380604 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 28 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: The Essential Guide to Telecommunications (3rd Edition) by Annabel Z. Dodd ISBN: 0130649074 Publisher: Prentice Hall PTR Pub. Date: 12 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: The New McGraw-Hill Telecom Factbook by Joseph A. Pecar, David A. Garbin ISBN: 0071351639 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Pub. Date: 31 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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