Product Description: The first comprehensive history of the Information Age... how we got there and where we are goingThe exchange of information is essential for both the organization of nature and the social life of mankind. Until recently, communication between people was more or less limited by geographic proximity...read more

Product Description: This work offers a study of all five forms of transmission systems currently in use: copper lines, optical fibre, radio relay, mobile radio and satellite. The book first presents an overview of telecommunications and of transmission carrier equipment in general, and then moves on to provide a chapter-by-chapter examination of each transmission system in detail, from principal characteristics and underlying technologies, to specific applications...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)