Installation and Maintenance of SDH/SONET, ATM, xDSL, and Synchronization Networks

by Jose M. Caballero, Francisco Hens, Roger Segura, Andreu Guimera

Overview

Service level agreements guaranteeing quality of service have helped your organization to keep old customers and win new ones over. Although it may be easy for the sales department to ink a service level agreement, you have to handle the constant problems of phase fluctuations, jitter, and wander, that threaten the quality of service spelled out in these service level agreements.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781580535250
Publisher:	Artech House, Incorporated
Publication date:	09/28/2003
Series:	Artech House Telecommunications Library
Pages:	454
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Jose M. Caballero is an international marketing manager for Trend Communications Ltd, High Wycombe, Bucks, U.K. He holds a B.S. and M.A. in computer communications from the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain and a M.B.A. from the Fundació Politécnica de Catalunya, Barcelona. Fran Hens is a product manager with Trend Communications in Barcelona and holds a B.Eng. and M.A. in telecommunications from the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Barcelona. Roger Segura is a product manager with Trend Communications in Barcelona and holds a B.Eng. and M.A. in telecommunications from the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Barcelona. Andreu Guimerá is a marketing manager with Trend Communications in Barcelona and holds a degree in marketing from Camara de Comerç de Barcelona, as well as a B.Eng. and M.A. in telecommunications from the Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Barcelona.

Table of Contents

Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchies. SONET/SDH. Network Synchronization. Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). xDSL Technology. Test and Measurement. SDH/SONET roll out. Jitter and Wander Control. ATM Commissioning and Maintenance. xDSL Qualification.