Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This is the first point of reference for the communications industries. It offers an introduction to a wide range of topics and concepts encountered in the field of communications technology. Whether you are looking for a simple explanation, or need to go into a subject in more depth, the Communications Technology Handbook provides all the information you need in one single volume.

This second edition has been updated to include the latest technology including:
Video on Demand
Wire-less Distribution systems
High speed data transmission over telephone lines
Smart cards and batteries
Global positioning Systems

The contents are ordered initially by communications systems. This is followed by an introduction to each topic and goes on to provide more detailed information in alphabetical order. Every section contains an explanation of common terminology, and further references are provided. This approach offers flexible access to information for a variety of readers. Those who know little about communications professionals, the book constitutes a handy reference source and a way of finding out about related technologies. The book addresses an international audience by referring to all systems and standards throughout.

This book has been revised to include new sections on:
* Video on demand
* Wire-less distribution systems
* High speed data transmission over telephone lines
* Smart cards
* Global positioning systems

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Analog systems and concepts
• Antennae or aerials
• Audio signal processing
• Bar code technology
• Codes and coding formats
• Computers in communications
• Digital communication systems
• Digital pulse code modulation
• Electromagnetic compatibility/interference
• Encryption and decryption
• Error control
• Facsimile systems
• Filters
• Frequency bands in use
• Image processing
• Information theory
• Logic
• Measurement of systems parameters
• Memories
• Microwave devices
• Mixer signal processing
• Modulation and demodulation
• Networks
• Noise
• Optical communications, devices and systems
• Photo detector/receivers
• Power supplies
• Propagation
• Quality and reliability
• Radar and navigation systems
• Radio frequency receivers
• Satellite systems
• Semiconductor devices and technology
• Signals
• Spread spectrum techniques
• Standards organisations and associated bodies
• Telephony and associated systems
• Television signal processing and systems
• Transmission lines and waveguides
• Videotex
• CCITT recommendations
• Abbreviations and acronyms
• Index

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

Communications technology is a broad discipline, and any endeavor to accommodate it in less than 400 pages is ambitious to an extreme. Lewis has expertise in some areas and less in others; his overall work is uneven and some topics are barely defined. This weakness is particularly noticeable in the areas of microwaves, transmission lines, and Smith charts, as well as in electromagnetic compatibility. The book can be recommended as a dictionary of terms and a handbook for such areas as analog systems, antennas, digital communications, and filters. Upper-division undergraduate through faculty. S. Lapatine; College of Staten Island, CUNY