Understanding modern telecommunications and the information superhighway / John G. Nellist, Elliot M. Gilbert.
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Table of Contents:
- From Telegraph to Terabits
- In the Beginning
- The Wire Telegraph
- Printing Telegraphs and the Teletypewriter
- The Telephone
- Telephone Switching
- Automatic Telephone Switching
- Voice Telecommunication Without Wires
- ATandT and Western Union Separate
- Wire Line Carrier
- Telecommunications Regulation
- Semiconductors Arrive
- Advances in Switching
- Coaxial Cables
- Microwave Radio Arrives
- First Transatlantic Submarine Telephone Cable
- The Digital Transmission Era Begins
- Satellites Relay Communications
- Community Antenna Television (CATV)
- Communications Through Glass Fibers
- The Breakup of Ma Bell
- Advances in Fiber Optic Technology
- New Network Technology
- Telecommunications Act of 1996
- The Computer and the Internet
- A Brief History
- Computer Miniaturization
- Microprocessor Size
- Microprocessor Speed
- From Megabytes to Gigabytes and Beyond
- The Millennim Bug
- The Internet
- Cyberspace
- Web Browsers
- Marketing on the Internet
- Hardware
- Software
- Internet Service Providers
- Retail Services
- Equity Trading
- Content
- Electronic Transactions
- Education
- Internet Access
- On-Ramp Congestion
- Who Uses the Information Superhighway?
- A Brief History
- Types of Communications Services
- Interactive Services
- Distribution Services
- The Internet
- Business and the Internet
- Computer-Telephony Integration
- Telecommuting
- The Virtual Office
- Video Applications
- Distance Learning
- Wired Campuses
- The Virtual College.