Digital Telephony 3rd Edition

This book is a top notch treastie on the fundamentals of digital telephony. This books offers an excellent high level overview of the history of the telephony network and the migration to a nearly all digital network including detailed coverage of all aspects and issues of the modern digital systems. As you advance through the chapters of the book it covers each topic is a well balanced amount of detail while providing insight into not only "how", by "why".The book is very well referenced and researched and can serve as a 'root node' for further investigation on nearly any digital telephony related topic. While the book is not particularly light reading, it is extremely well written and I would highly recommend it to both beginngers and experts alike.

Text required for a class... author does good job presenting history of telecom, but takes liberties with many of the examples, deriving answers with concepts not presented or explained in the materials. Plus, working the supplied answers to example problems backwards (because my answers didn't match the author's), I've come across two examples I believe the author made a fundamental error, to-which the teacher says, "yeah, I guess you could do it either way."Though, even with the liberties, the majority of the text is very readable and comprehendible. It's actually not a bad book to read, even if there wasn't a class-requirement to do so.

Very informative book and not difficult to assimilate. I would recommend this read to anyone in the telecommunications/information technology sector.

An excellent book for introducing anyone (with a technical interest) to digital signal processing. Book is a must, I would say, for understanding what makes 4G work.

I had a master of science course in 1984 named Digital Switching Systems and this book the text book of that course, I enjoyed so much of reading the book and how simple and clear was explained all the modern Digital Telephony at that time. It was probably the only one comprehensive text book available at that time. I wish all the best for John C. Bellamy.M. Rahimi

I teach communications concepts and have found this book to be the single most valuable book in my pursuit of knowledge. Every subject I've needed more information on is covered. Most subjects are explained with a good understanding of communications and concepts assumed by the author...a strong math background would also be helpful. All in all I have yet to find a better all around book that encompasses the communications field as well as Digital Telephony does.

I am taking a Master's class in Telecom that is using this book. There is a lot of good information in this book. But it is a tough read. The biggest problem is the author's writing style. I wish he would have taken a tech writing class. If he had, he would have learned that simpler is better. The material is complicated enough. Write the way you speak.Page 13 for example. "In general tems the equipment assoicated with any particular switching machine can be categorized as providing one of the following functions.. (lists the three functions of a switch)"What he is trying to say is: "A switch performs 3 basic functions..."

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the content of the book written in lucid and clear with practical problems and solutions.