Telecommunications Protocols

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ISBN: 9780071349154 | 0071349154
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 8/1/1999

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* A complete overview of telephony, wireless, and data communications, this is a superb introduction for the novice and a plain-language, math-free refresher for the expert * Presents the fundamentals of each technology used to deliver network services, places them in context with each other, and gives practical examples of their applications * Get the basics of the SS7 network and its impact on cellular * Understand the basics of TCP/IP and the Internet * Understand the fundamentals of the cellular network, SONET, and ATM* Stay up to the minute on voice over IP and local number portability issues

Introduction to Second Edition

xvii

Acknowledgments

xix

The Fundamentals

(50)

Historic View of Telecommunications

(10)

Data Communications History

(5)

Telephony History

(5)

Standards Organizations

(9)

The Standards Process

(1)

Organizations Here and Abroad

(1)

International Telecommunications Union

(1)

International Organization for Standards (ISO)

(1)

European Telecommunication Standards Institute (ETSI)

(1)

American National Standards Institute

(1)

Bell Communications Research (Bellcore)

(1)

Exchange Carriers Standards Association (ECSA)

(1)

Electronics Industries Association (EIA)

(1)

Institute of Elecrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

(1)

Federal Communications Commission

(1)

Network Reliability Council (NRC)

(1)

Federal Telecommunications Standards Committee (FTSC)

(1)

National Bureau of Standards (NBS)

(1)

Defense Communications Agency (DCA)

(1)

Underwriters Laboratories (UL)

(1)

Canadian Standards Association (CSA)

(1)

ATM Forum

(1)

Digital Transmission Fundamentals

(7)

From Electrical to Binary

(1)

Alphabet Soup---ASCII and EBCDIC

(3)

Digitizing Voice

(3)

The Basics of Telecommunications Protocols

(11)

Protocol Services

(2)

Protocol Tasks

(1)

Segmentation and Reassembly

(2)

Encapsulation

(1)

Connection Control

(1)

Ordered Delivery

(1)

Flow Control

(1)

Error Detection/Correction

(1)

Layering and Its Advantages

(1)

The Open System Interconnection (OSI) Model

(1)

The OSI Layers

(2)

Networking Fundamentals

(12)

Evolution to Distributed Processing

(2)

Client/Server Environments

(1)

The Local Area Network

(1)

Services Provided

(1)

Routing Principles

(1)

Wide Area Networks (WANs)---The Outside Connection

(1)

Services Provided

(1)

Routing Principles

(1)

Switching Principles

(1)

Circuit Switching

(1)

Packet Switching

(1)

Cell Relay

(1)

Chapter Test

(3)

The Evolving Telephone Network

(48)

The Infrastructure

(12)

Predivestiture Bell System Networks

(3)

Postdivestiture Bell System Networks

(4)

New Switching Hierarchy

(2)

Local Access Transport Areas

(1)

About Divestiture and Its Reasoning---Winds of Change

(1)

New Telecommunications Law

(2)

The National Information Infrastructure

(4)

The Objective

(1)

The Promise of Equal Access to All

(1)

Cost and More Cost---The Reality

(1)

The North Carolina Information Highway

(2)

Model Citizen or Political Agenda

(2)

The Backbone

(10)

From Analog to Digital Trunking

(1)

Multiplexing

(1)

Time Division Multiplexing

(2)

The Digital Hierarchy---DSI and DS3

(2)

T-1 Facilities

(2)

SONET---The New Fiber Backbone

(2)

The Private Network

(12)

Private Branch Exchanges

(1)

Features and Capabilities of Private Networks

(3)

Voice and Data Integration

(1)

Voice over IP (VoIP)

(1)

Centrex Services

(1)

Computer Telephony Applications

(1)

TAPI

(4)

ASAI/SCAI

(1)

The Transport

(2)

The Evolution of ATM

(1)

The Subscriber Interface

(2)

Integrated Services---Pulling It All Together

(2)

Chapter Test

(3)

LANs to WANs

(56)

Evolution to Distributed Processing

100

(3)

An Overview of Mainframes and Their Applications

100

(2)

The Move to Personal Computers

102

(1)

Lan Technology---Connecting to the Desktop

103

(27)

Topologies and Basic Architecture

104

(3)

Lan Devices

107

(1)

Repeaters

108

(1)

Bridge

108

(1)

Routers

109

(1)

Other Network Devices

110

(1)

An Overview of Ethernet

111

(2)

Media Access Control

113

(3)

Logical Link Layer

116

(2)

Acknowledged Connectionless Service

118

(1)

An Overview of Token Ring

118

(5)

An Overview of FDDI

123

(6)

Client/Server

129

(1)

Network Operating Systems

130

(1)

Bridging the Gap with Wide Area Networks

130

(5)

Basic Architecture and Options Available

130

(1)

X.25 Packet Switching

131

(1)

Using T-1 for Connectivity

132

(1)

Switched 56

132

(1)

Frame Relay

133

(1)

ISDN

133

(1)

TCP/IP

134

(1)

Internet as a Model

135

(3)

Lessons to Be Learned from the Internet

135

(1)

Issues to Resolve--Corporate Policies and Legislature

136

(1)

Corporate Solutions--The Intranet

137

(1)

The Internet Infrastructure--Worldwide Networking

138

(2)

Who Is in Control?--Supercomputer Centers

139

(1)

Direct or Indirect---Getting Connected

139

(1)

Internet Services

140

(4)

E-Mail---Global Delivery

141

(1)

Information Exchange---File Transfer

141

(1)

Cheap Remote Access---Terminal Emulation

142

(1)

Blessing or Curse?---Newsgroups

142

(1)

Commercialized Internet---World Wide Web

143

(1)

Fad or Reality---Voice on the Internet

144

(9)

VoIP Network Elements

147

(3)

Carrier Grade Service

150

(2)

VoIP Standards

152

(1)

Conclusion

152

(1)

Chapter Test

153

(2)

TCP/IP---Protocol of the Internet

155

(56)

Introduction

156

(5)

History of TCP/IP

156

(1)

Overview of Internets

157

(1)

Autonomous Systems

158

(1)

Description of TCP/IP

158

(3)

TCP/IP Standards

161

(2)

Standards Documentation

161

(1)

Standards Groups

162

(1)

Internet Protocol

163

(26)

IP Header

164

(5)

IP Addressing

169

(1)

Sockets and Ports

170

(1)

IP Addresses

170

(3)

Subnet Masking

173

(3)

Domain Name System

176

(2)

Routing in an Internet

178

(1)

Source Routing

179

(1)

Time Stamping

179

(1)

Circular Routing

180

(1)

Split Horizon

181

(1)

Poison Reverse

181

(1)

Triggered Updates

181

(1)

IP Routing Protocols

182

(2)

Address Resolution Protocol

184

(1)

Reverse Address Resolution Protocol

185

(1)

Routing Information Protocol

186

(1)

Open Shortest Path First

186

(1)

HELLO Protocol

187

(1)

IP Services

187

(1)

Fragmentation and Reassembly

188

(1)

Internet Control Message Protocol

188

(1)

Transport Control Protocol

189

(8)

TCP Header

190

(3)

Processing of Urgent Data

193

(1)

Processing of Push Data

193

(1)

TCP Ports and Sockets

194

(1)

TCP Services

195

(1)

TCP Error and Flow Control

195

(1)

TCP Management

196

(1)

User Datagram Protocol

197

(1)

UDP Header

198

(1)

Internet Application Protocols

198

(8)

TELNET

199

(1)

File Transfer Protocol

200

(1)

Trivial File Transfer Protocol

200

(1)

Simple Mail Transport Protocol

201

(1)

Post Office Protocol

202

(1)

Network News Transport Protocol

203

(1)

Hypertext Transport Protocol

204

(1)

SLIP and PPP

205

(1)

Network Management

206

(2)

Simple Network Management Protocol

206

(1)

Management Information Base

207

(1)

Chapter Test

208

(3)

Signaling System #7

211

(50)

From Signaling to Control

212

(5)

Signaling Methods---How They Evolved

213

(2)

Common Channel Signaling---The Advantages

215

(2)

After Signaling---Autonomous Network Control

217

(1)

Intelligent Networks

217

(8)

What is Intelligence?

219

(1)

Future Services

220

(1)

Intelligent Routing

221

(1)

Smart Custom Features

221

(1)

Database Access---Key to Intelligence

222

(1)

End-to-End Subscriber Services

223

(1)

Broadband Requirements

224

(1)

SS7 Architecture

225

(8)

Data Links

225

(3)

56/64-kbps Links

228

(1)

1.544-Mbps Links

228

(1)

ATM Links

229

(1)

Network Components

230

(1)

The Service Switching Point

230

(1)

The Signal Transfer Point

231

(1)

The Service Control Point

232

(1)

SS7 Protocols

233

(24)

Message Transfer Part

236

(2)

Network Management

238

(4)

Signaling Connection Control Part

242

(2)

Transaction Capabilities Application Part

244

(5)

Telephone User Part

249

(1)

ISDN User Part

250

(7)

Chapter Test

257

(4)

ISDN and Broadband ISDN

261

(54)

ISDN---An Overview of Its Capability

262

(6)

ISDN Standards

263

(1)

ISDN Features

264

(1)

Services and Applications

264

(4)

Subscriber Interface to SS7

268

(3)

End-to-End Signaling with DSS-1

269

(1)

Private Intelligent Networks

270

(1)

Early ISDN Issues

271

(4)

The Cart Before the Horse---Premature Offering

272

(1)

Interoperability---Where Did the Standards Go?

273

(1)

Configuration---The Consumer Nightmare

274

(1)

ISDN Network Architecture

275

(25)

Basic Rate Interface

275

(1)

Primary Rate Interface

276

(1)

Channel Usage

276

(1)

The Nodes and the Reference Points

277

(1)

ISDN Functions

278

(1)

ISDN Reference Points

278

(1)

Protocols of ISDN

279

(1)

Link Access Procedure for the D Channel

280

(4)

LAPD Sequencing

284

(1)

Management

285

(1)

Connection Establishment

285

(1)

LAPD Flow Control and Error Detection/Correction

286

(1)

B Channel Data Link Protocol

287

(1)

V.120 Connection Establishment

288

(1)

ISDN Layer Three

289

(2)

Q.931 Message Applications

291

(1)

Call Establishment Messages

292

(1)

Call Information Phase Messages

293

(1)

Call Clearing Messages

294

(1)

Miscellaneous Messages

295

(1)

Q.931 Message Parameters

295

(5)

Broadband ISDN---The Future

300

(6)

Overview of BISDN Advantages

301

(3)

BISDN Architecture

304

(1)

BISDN and ATM---What Do They Have to Offer One Another?

305

(1)

Frame Relay

306

(4)

Chapter Test

310

(5)

The Cellular Network

315

(30)

From Radiotelephone to Cellular Telephones

316

(4)

Overview of Radiotelephone Networks

318

(1)

The Cellular Solution---Architecture and Distribution

319

(1)

Cellular Network Architecture and Protocols

320

(20)

The U.S. Network

323

(1)

The International Network

324

(2)

Cellular Operations

326

(8)

Time Division Multiple Access

334

(2)

Coded Division Multiple Access

336

(2)

Global System for Mobile Communications

338

(2)

CDPD- Packet Switching over Cellular

340

(1)

Personal Communications Services

340

(2)

New Network and New Services

341

(1)

GSM---To Be or Not to Be

342

(1)

Specialized Wireless Solutions

342

(2)

One Number Service

343

(1)

Data Access

343

(1)

Alarm Services

343

(1)

Telemetering

344

(1)

Chapter Test

344

(1)

The Fiber Backbone

345

(26)

From Copper to Fiber

346

(5)

Existing Digital Transmission Overview

347

(2)

SONET---The Solution

349

(2)

SONET Overview

351

(13)

SONET Network Nodes

352

(2)

The SONET Protocol

354

(5)

SONET Framing

359

(1)

Virtual Tributaries

360

(2)

Byte Interleaving

362

(1)

Automatic Protection Switching

362

(2)

Fiber in The Loop

364

(4)

Current Implementation Plans

364

(4)

Chapter Test

368

(3)

ATM---Key to the Future

371

(32)

Integrating the Public Switched Telephone Network

372

(11)

The Reason for ATM

373

(2)

From the Network to the Desktop

375

(1)

From LAN to LAN

376

(1)

ATM Services and Applications

376

(1)

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