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This handbook delivers a complete and practice-oriented overview of the fundamentals of today's telecommunications networks and the future prospects for next generation networks (NGN). It deals not only with the technology and services intrinsic to networks, but also the regulatory, social, and business environments within which they must develop and function. The very clear and concise text, supplemented by many color illustrations and embedded into a functional four-color layout, make the handbook suitable for self-study as well as for quick reference. The intended audience includes professionals and students in electrical engineering, computer science, business, and economics. Even readers with a more general interest in high technology and the development of the information society can benefit from the easily accessible wealth of information. Many industrial experts contributed to this work, including many from Cisco and France Telecom. TOC:The evolution of telecommunications regulation.- Changes in the telecommunications market.- Challenges for tomorrow's networks.- The rise of digitization.- Optics, the key to very high bit rate networks.- Radio access, the key to global mobility.- Adapting existing wired access to digital.- Packet mode, the key to multi-bit rate networks.- Quality of service and IP traffic engineering.- Software techniques for telecommunications.- Network control and service control.- Signaling protocols.- Information systems.- Application protocols.- Description languages.- Security techniques.- A synchronous multi-service transmission network on optical fibre.- A 64-bit switched digital network.- Data networks.- Audio and TV networks.- Mobile networks.- Customer Premises Equipment and private networks.- The dawn of high-speed packet networks.- The foundations of NGN.- NGN Customer Premises Equipment.- NGN: Defining the reference architecture.- Information systems and NGN.- The new network economy.- Towards NGN.- Digital transmission systems.- Multiple access techniques.