A consumer-targeting reference book with easy-to-follow instructions on taking pictures, sharing images, transferring images, connecting a phone to a PC, and making use of online Mobile Web Logs that also connects readers to useful web sites for sharing and editing photos. Original. (All users)

Discusses the childhood, family life, and achievements of the inventor best known for his invention of the telephone (view table of contents)

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Shows how to install telephone jacks and wiring, repair telephones and answering machines, and troubleshoot common problems (view table of contents)

Product Description: In 1956 Brian Canfield got his first job at the BC Telephone Company as an apprentice installer. He was just out of high school, only eighteen years old, a local kid born and raised in New Westminster, and he took to this new opportunity like he would to any new opportunity in his career: with passion and wonder and huge commitment...read more

The quality of telecommunication voice services has become an important issue due to the evolving and liberalized market. With the advent of new technologies, however, a diversification takes place which makes it necessary to carefully plan and observe network quality. Speech communication quality - as it is perceived by the user or customer of a service - carries a multidimensional nature, a fact which must be reflected in its assessment and prediction with quality models. In this book a new schematic is developed which classifies different entities contributing to the quality of a service. It takes into account conversational user as well as service-related contributions. Starting from this concept, perceptively relevant constituents of speech communication quality are identified. A simulation model is developed and implemented, based on physical elements of the transmission configuration. It allows the perceptively most relevant parameters to be simulated, in real time and for the conversation situation. The book gives a valuable overview on assessment needed for reliably measuring the different quality dimensions. For the planning of telephone networks, quality models are presented which aim at predicting mouth-to-ear quality as it would be perceived by a user of the system. These models are an important tool for the planner of telecommunication networks, as they allow the expected quality to be estimated in advance, even before the network has been set up. Two well-known models (the SUBMOD and the E-model) are analyzed in more detail, with an emphasis on the psychoacoustic and psychophysical backgrounds. It turns out that model predictions are satisfactory for many types of degradations, but they can still be improved especially for new types of impairments. Proposals are made for quality model enhancement and combined approaches. Due to its `handbook' character, this book is an invaluable source of background information for anyone working in the field of speech quality assessment as well as telephone network planning and operation. (view table of contents)

Provides information on Asterisk, an open source telephony application.

Product Description: Using real-world examples to demonstrate a variety of ideas for effective teleconferencing, this text explains how to use conference calls to get things done efficiently and economically.

Collects RFCs pertaining to the standards and protocols governing Internet telephony--the technology that enables voice, data, and video collaboration over existing IP-based networks. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: C. Paul Stocker: His Life and Legacy

Product Description: Optimize call center technologies and boost your bottom line. Open up new sales opportunities and improve customer service with today's newest teleservice technologies! Call Center Operations: Profiting from Teleservices , by Charles E...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Describes the responsibilities, qualifications, outlook, and salary ranges for a hundred careers

Product Description: Landing a job in the twenty-first century takes skill, determination, and a little help from the Career Opportunities series. Each popular title provides an in-depth look at salary ranges, advancement prospects, employment trends, necessary experience, online information, and relevant unions and associations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In 2002 voice over IP will constitute more than 25% of all long distance voice calls, according to Network World. That’s more than a 30% ramp-up from 2001. The emergence of SIP, MPLS and new quality of service tools is making carrier grade voice over IP a service reality, and a potentially huge margin booster and revenue driver for service providers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Cellular phones have gone from a "gee whiz" curiosity to an indispensable communications link for more than 224 million U.S. subscribers. Despite cell phones' enormous popularity, it has been difficult to get reliable, objective information on which to base purchases and maximize performance...read more