In this updated and expanded edition of her excellent telecommunications primer,
Lili explains in just the right detail everything you need to know to become
fluent in this most important and fascinating industry. Besides including a
satisfying amount of expert technical detail, the book also dis ...
I love telecommunications. It is powerful and it empowers, with
far-reaching consequences. It has demonstrated the potential to transform
society and business, and the revolution has only just begun. With the invention
of the telephone, human communications and commerce were forever changed: Time ...
When 3GPP started standardizing the IMS a few years ago, most analysts expected the
number of IMS deploymentsto grow dramatically as soon the initial IMS specifications were
ready (3GPP Release 5 was functionallyfrozenin the first half of 2002and completedshortly
after that). While those predictions ...
The first practical examples of mobile communications were used in many countries like
the USA, the UK and Germany in military services, and played a significant role in the
First World War to transfer important information from the front to headquarters to take
further actions. Good and secure wire ...
The digital dilemma: Telecoms fi rms prepare for
the future is an Economist Intelligence Unit
(EIU) report commissioned by WIPRO. The report
strives to identify the key issues that companies
within the telecoms sector are facing as they
attempt to reshape their businesses to compete
in a more digiti ...
Public telephone operators and new independent wireless operators through-
out the world are deploying wireless access in an effort to drastically reduce
delivery costs in the most expensive part of the network?the local loop.
Available radio technology enables both existing and new entrants to acce ...
As I have increasingly moved away from the world of research and into
thatofmanagementandbusiness,ithasbecomeapparenttomethatthere
are many people from a nontechnical background who need to under-
standcellularsystemsinmoredetailinordertobeabletoperformtheir
job,beitanalyzingfinancialinvestments,run ...
Today wireless is becoming the leader in communication choices among
users. It is not anymore a backup solution for nomadic travellers but really a
newmoodnaturallyusedeverywhereevenwhenthewiredcommunicationsare
possible. Many technologies evolve then continuously, changing the telecom-
munication w ...
Welcome to the world of wireless communications and the logical extension
to the broadband architectures that are emerging as the future of the
industry. No aspect of communications will be untouched by the wireless
interfaces;no part of our working environment will be left untouched either.
As the ...
During the past three decades, the world has seen signifi cant changes in the telecom-
munications industry. There has been rapid growth in wireless communications, as
seen by large expansion in mobile systems. Wireless communications have moved
from fi rst-generation (1G) systems primarily focused ...
