Privacy on the line the politics of wiretapping and encryption by Diffie, Whitfield, Landau, Susan Eva

Organizational reality reports from the firing line

Telecommunication transmission handbook by Freeman, Roger L

Table of Contents: “…Line of Sight Microwave -- 5. Beyond Line-of-Sight: Tropospheric Scatter and Diffraction Links -- 6. …”

Reference manual for telecommunications engineering by Freeman, Roger L

Table of Contents: “…Telephone Traffic -- Switching -- Noise, Modulation, and Other Radio System Parameters -- Multiplexing Techniques -- Fiber Optics Transmission -- Electromagnetic Wave Propagation -- Radio Systems -- Transmission Lines and Related Devices -- Data/Telegraph Transmission -- Integrated Services Digital Networks (ISDN) -- Facsimile Transmission -- Office and Industrial Communications -- Standard Time and Frequency -- Electromagnetic Compatibility -- Engineering Economy -- Miscellaneous Data -- Index.…”

Understanding data communications from fundamentals to networking by Held, Gilbert

Table of Contents: “…Communications in a Modern Society -- 2. Telegraph and Telephone Operations -- 3. Basic Circuit Parameters, Measurement Units and Media Overview -- 4. …”

Reference manual for telecommunications engineering by Freeman, Roger L.

Table of Contents: “…Telephone traffic -- Signaling -- Switching -- Numbering, routing, and networks -- Noise, modulation, and other radio system parameters -- Transmission factors in telephony -- Multiplexing techniques -- SONET and SDH -- The digital network -- Outside plant: metallic pair systems -- Fiber optic transmission -- Radio-frequency data and regulatory information -- Electromagnetic wave propagation -- Radio noise -- High-frequency (HF) radio systems -- Line-of-sight microwave -- Tropospheric scatter and diffraction -- Satellite communications -- Land mobile communications: cellular radio, paging, and personal communication services -- Meteor burst systems -- Antennas, towers, and passive repeaters -- Transmission lines and related devices -- Forward error correction -- Data transmission -- Enterprise network I: local area networks -- Enterprise networks II: wide area networks -- Integrated services digital networks (ISDNs) -- Broadband ISDN (B-ISDN) and the asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) -- The Internet -- Facsimile transmission -- Television transmission -- Community antenna television (CATV) -- Office and industrial communications -- Emergency and standby power systems for telecommunications -- Standard time and frequency -- Availability, reliability, and maintainability -- Grounding, bonding, and shielding -- Electromagnetic compatibility -- Engineering economy -- Unit conversions -- Miscellaneous data.…”

Digital planet tomorrow's technology and you by Beekman, George, Beekman, Ben