A study of broadband access technologies for engineers working for telecommunications carriers and Internet service providers. It offers professionals an in-depth understanding of unbundling for voice and data services, and provides guidance on hardware considerations and critical communication protocols. There is coverage of the various alternatives for the customer premises, including home networking, single equipment customer premises, and multi-equipment customer premises. Supported by nearly 250 illustrations and over 120 equations, the manual covers a wide range of key topics to help professionals with their work in the field.
Telecommunication networks evolution; unbundling characteristics and alternative technologies; alternative technologies for the local loop; cable networks; power line communications; twisted pair electrical characteristics; HDSL and its variants; ADSL; convolutional coder; DMT-ADSL receiver; line initialization; G.lite and VDSL; DSLAM and home networking; protocol architecture; ATM-based ADSL protocol architectures; TCP windowing in ADSL access systems; voice and video over DSL; wireless local loop; optical and EFM access networks.