Networks and Telecommunications Design and Operation

Telecommunications network design and operation is now widely regarded as an issue of business management as well as electrical engineering. In this updated edition, Martin Clark, a pioneer of this perspective, applies it to the increasingly complex and diverse realm of voice, data and multimedia networks. Written in an accessible style and clearly illustrated throughout, this is a basic, practical and intuitive insight into modern network engineering with sections including: * Technical accounts of modern voice, data and multimedia networks * Coverage of ATM, B-ISDN, SDH, mobile radio and satellite networks, Internet and TCP/IP * Practical aspects of running and setting-up networks * Running a business based on telecommunications A text specifically for readers new to the whole subject of telecommunications, and professional telecommunications managers who need an introduction and reference work on all aspects of technology, operational techniques and regulation.

About the author Martin Clark spent eight years in the international network planning department of British Telecom until he became Group Telecommunications Manager with Grand Metropolitan in 1989. Since 1991 he has worked in Germany, setting up: Cable & Wireless’ pan-European Managed Data Network, Deutsche Bank’s corporate network and the carrier network for Mannesmann, Germany’s new public telecommunications transmission company. Recently he has been working with the wireless ATM company, Netro, and practising as a freelance consultant. He is also a Chartered European Engineer and a member of the IEE.