Telecommunications Library
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Dramatic cost savings for employers and increased job satisfaction for employees are combined in telecommuting, an increasingly attractive alternative to traditional business workstyles. This book demonstrates the practical side of a flexible work force enabled by computer networking - aiding understanding of how telecommuting has emerged into the forefront of business practices worldwide. This work examines: critical success factors; current hardware, software, and telecommunications technologies supporting participants; equipment, telecommunications, and information service providers; developing effective telecommuting programs and future evolution of the industry; emerging advanced telecommuting technologies; and the role of state and local governments in supporting a growing telecommuting industry. Employers, employees, equipment providers and telecommunications service providers should find this a useful reference.
This book explores contemporary telecommunications technology. It looks at the factors that will radically affect networks in the 1990s, helping to assess options for telecommunications systems with increased power, efficiency, and flexibility. Addressing both the technical and managerial aspects of the industry, it aims to promote understanding of the concepts and issues behind the latest technologies. The book places heavy emphasis on Open Systems Interconnection and supporting standards. It surveys microwave, fibre, infrared and satellite transmission media. The text discusses the management and transmission of information as well as monetary measures of system design - and covers issues and trends of the late 1980s and early 1990s.