Future Telecommunications

Résumé du livre

This is the book the American telecommunications industry has been waiting for. In the face of a $4 trillion national debt and serious overseas competition, the need for a plan of action that restores the dominance of U.S. telecommunications - and strategically moves it forward with future products and services - has never been greater. In this one expert resource, you'll get the priceless wisdom of top-level U S WEST executives on how to update the aging American telecommunications infrastructure that has allowed other countries to gain a foothold in this exploding marketplace. And you will learn the full range of information applications that exist now, how they will change in the 1990s, and what narrowband, wideband, and broadband services and products will be required. Included - for the first time - are an assessment of today's and tomorrow's technologies as the stepping-off point for future information networks, products, and services; a multimillion-dollar analysis of the present and future telecommunication needs of 20 major industries - with specific applications for banking, medical/health care, finance, law, education, government, and more; a complete listing of the telecommunications services that will be developed over the next 15 years - previously available only internally within industry-sponsored round tables and externally in the author's continuing education university-affiliated workshops; a thorough description of private and public internetworking; the three key network switching products and service nodes that will be required by the year 2000 to service the new infrastructure and more! Finally - you will view the future of telecommunications from both a marketingand network perspective - supported by a powerful five-step program for achieving the infrastructure necessary to make the vision a reality. Picture the possibilities - a national computer data network stretching from coast to coast; a multigigabit resource for videophone, videoconferencing, telecommuting, telephone and workstation integration; Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN); image communications; multidocument storage and retrieval, and more. Then read Future Telecommunications and learn how to make it happen!