The Irwin Handbook of Telecommunications Management

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 875 pages
• Published by: McGraw-Hill
• Edition: 3rd Edition March 22, 2001
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0071370587
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0071370585
• Book Dimensions: 9.5 x 7.7 x 2.5 inches
• Weighs: 3.9 pounds

Product Description
Information and Solutions for Today's Telecommunications Systems

Regardless of your industry, you’ll find James Harry Green’s The Irwin Handbook of Telecommunications Management, Third Edition an authoritative how-to solutions manual for every telecommunications management question. Now comprehensively revised and updated, this classic resource provides hands-on techniques for understanding today's major technological changes -- and incorporating them into your organization's telecom strategy. Covering the entire spectrum of 21st century telecommunications, the Handbook makes it easy to locate, understand, and implement:


* Long-range planning, feasibility analysis, and forecasting
* The selection and management of telecom equipment and services, writing and evaluating responses to RFPs, managing long distance services, and more
* Management of a telecom facility -- including PBX and key telephone equipment, automatic call distributors, voice processing equipment, local area networks and Internets, wide area networks, convergence, and video and audio conferencing equipment
* Specific techniques for effective cost containment
* Telecommunications operations -- from fraud and disaster prevention to project management, quality control, security and more

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"Without a doubt, this is the best book ever written on telecom management. If you're in it, you must have this book."

­­Harry Newton

Teleconnect Library

An ideal companion to The Irwin Handbook of Telecommunications

The Only Book to Provide Managers In Any Business with Updated Information and Solutions for Today's Telecommunications Systems

The Irwin Handbook of Telecommunications Management is renowned for covering every important telecommunications system management issue. Now comprehensively revised and updated for an increasingly complex telecommunications field, this classic resource provides hands-on techniques for understanding today's major technological changes­­and incorporating them into your organization's overall telecom strategy.

Topics new to this edition include:

Techniques to integrate automatic call distribution equipment with the Internet The emergence of competitive local exchange carriers (CLECs) * The difference between incumbent and competitive LECs * Internet service providers (ISPs) and how to evaluate and select them * New technologies that allows employees to work from home * Server and e-mail management * Frame relay and intranet or virtual private network selection and management * Internetworking equipment and services * Firewall and router selection and management * Management of data network bandwidth

The Irwin Handbook of Telecommunications Management contains many practical tools that you can use on the job. To make them more useful, computer versions are available to purchasers of this book through a special, dedicated Website. Download cost models in spreadsheet form and use them by inserting your own values. For call center load and trunking calculations, a program is included that can be run on any Windows computer.

In this era of rapid technological change­­from the Internet's ability to add value at every level of business to the critical decisions that must be made on whether or not to converge voice and data at the network level­­only one book provides invaluable reference material and information for every aspect of telecommunications. That book is The Irwin Handbook of Telecommunications Management, Third Edition. A vital resource for anyone involved in the telecommunications business, it covers the entire spectrum of 21st century telecommunications.

Organized into five sections, The Irwin Handbook of Telecommunications Management makes every important aspect of managing a telecommunications system easy to locate, understand, and implement:

• Part I is a comprehensive overview of telecommunications management, addressing issues including the Telecommunications Act of 1996, current and long-range planning, feasibility analysis, and forecasting.
• Part II discusses the selection and management of telecom equipment and services. Chapters examine management of Internet services, writing and evaluating responses to RFPs, managing long distance services, and more.
• Part III covers the management of a telecom facility­­including PBX and key telephone equipment, automatic call distributors, voice processing equipment, local area networks and Internets, wide area networks, convergence, and video and audio conferencing equipment.
• Part IV is about cost control. Besides offering specific techniques for effective cost containment, the chapters in this section cover benchmarking, contracting, outsourcing, and optimizing voice circuits and data network bandwidth.
• Part V puts it all together. From the development of a telecom operations and disaster prevention plan to project management, quality control, security and fraud prevention, and more, it provides a thorough examination of telecommunications operations planning and execution

Comprehensive in scope and concise in detailing the information that busy professionals need to know, The Irwin Handbook of Telecommunications Management provides complete, detailed coverage of the processes and procedures for getting maximum value from a telecommunications system. Managers in any industry can turn to it for authoritative solutions­­and as a necessary how-to manual­­for every telecommunications management question.

Reader Reviews
I think the book covers a complete discussion of every telecommunication facility development topic. The book starts from basic issues, such as selecting equipments and using them, to the cost analysis of develop the system. This makes the book comfortable for telco manager who never did business telecommunication system development before. I think this book is perfect for every telco manager. This book is, I think, also suitable for engineers and technicians to open and broaden the cost analysis of systems developed. I think the author is an expert in enterprise telecommunication system design and knows what he is doing. As a courtesy, I attach the correct table of content... Part 1: Principles of Telecommunications Management and Planning Introduction to Telecommunications Management, The Telecommunications Act of 1996, Telecommunications Strategic Planning, Current and Long-Range Planning, Feasibility Analysis, Forecasting Telecommunications Services Part 2: Selecting Telecommunications Services and Equipment Developing Requirements and Specifications, Writing Requests for Proposals, Evaluating Responses to Requests for Proposals, Managing Long-Distance Services, Selecting Local Exchange Services, Managing Internet Services, Wiring Plans and Equipment Rooms Part 3: Managing Telecommunications Facilities Managing PBX and Key Telephone Equipment, Managing Automatic Call Distributors, Managing Voice Processing Equipment, Managing Local Area Networks and Internets, Managing Wide Area Networks, Managing Video and Audio Conferencing Equipment, Managing Convergence Part 4: Telecommunications Cost Control Controlling Telecommunications Costs, Benchmarking Telecommunications Results, Contracting and Outsourcing, Sizing and Optimizing Voice Circuits, Optimizing Data Network Bandwidth Part 5: Operations Planning and Execution Developing a Telecommunications Operations Plan, Disaster Prevention and Recovery, Cutover Planning and Management, Telecommunications Project Management, Resale of Telecommunications Services, Controlling Telecommunications Quality, Managing Telecommunications Security, Preventing Toll Fraud, Network Maintenance and Testing, Network Management Systems Appendixes