Communications Network Test & Measurement Handbook - Catherine Ann Coombs

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Résumé :
Assure peak efficiency and performance in any type of communications network! The explosive growth of digital communications networks, linking all parts of the globe has dramatically increased the need for tools and processes that ensure the ability of these vaious elements to operate together, set national and international standards, achieve local objectives for quality of service, and provide information that allows effective and proactive network management. Test and measurement instruments, systems and software provide these tools. This handbook explains how they work and how to use them in a set of clear and understandable chapters written by experts in their fields. You'll find everything you need to enhance performance in public and private networks, the Internet and cellular networks. Chapters describe how to select tools, develop and perform appropriate tests, and get information as well as data that ensures effective network and understanding on: Network operation parameters and success metrics; Hardware and software technolgies in communications; The Open Systems Interface (OSI) model; Analyses of network protocols, transmission errors, and physical connections; Development of effective tests for operation and performance of all types of networks; Selection of the most appropriate test and measurement tools; Development of information not just data. Let the Communications Network Test and Measurement Handbook guide you straight to optimum network performance.

Biographie:
Clyde F. Coombs, Jr. is the Editor In Chief of the popular Electronics Instrument Handbook and has been editing best selling books on various electronic and reliability topics since 1997. Recently retired after 30 years in various management and engineering positions at Hewlett-Packard, he has also published four editions of the Printed Circuits Handbook, and two editions of the Reliability Engineering and Management Handbook. Both books are also published by McGraw-Hill Catherine A. Coombs holds degrees from Stanford and Cornell Universities. She was a major contributor to the book Introduction to Telecommunication and Networking, published by Simon and Schuster.

Sommaire:
Part I: Introduction Network Technologies and Performance. Part II: lNetwork Test and Measurement. Introduction to Telecommunications Network Measurements. Conformance and Interoperability Testing. Part III: Wide Area Networks. PDH Networks: Principles of Digital Transmission. Frame Relay. Integrated Services Digital Network. Broadband communications and Asynchronous Transfer Mode. ATM Testing; Deployment of ATM-Based Services. ATM Layer Testing. An Introduction to Synchronous Signals and Netowkrs. Part IV: Local Area Networks. Private Network Technologies. Private Networks Performance Testing. Network Interconnection Technologies and Testing. Part V: Cellular Networks. Cellular Measurement Strategies. Cellular Measurement Descriptions. Cellular Network Life Cycle Testing. Part VI: Basic Telecommunication Technologies. Fiber Optic elements. Timing and Delay Jitter. Protocol Analysis. Part VII: Network Test Instrumentation. Analog Measurement Instrumentation. Bit Error Rate Measurement and Error Performance Analysis. Protocol Analyzers. Optical Element Testers. distributed Network Monitoring. SDH and SONET Analyzers. Signaling System 7 (SS7) Testing. Part VIII: Network Management. Local Area Network Management and PErformance Monitoring. SS7 Signaling Monitoring Systems. Glossary. Index. Measurements in Digital Communications. Digital Communications Test and Measurement Instruments. Network Test and Measurement Systems.