TELECOM RESOURCE

Designed to be of interest to technical and nontechnical readers, the Wiley Survival Guide in Global Telecommunications: Broadband Access, Optical Components and Networks, and Cryptography provides in-depth discussions on digital subscriber line, fiber in the loop, home networking, optical waveguides, WDM networks, the basic physics of lightwave signals, optical communications from wireless to wire line, passive and active optical components, and cryptography and communications security. Exercises and keyword summaries are included. Part of the Wiley Survival Guides series, the 554-page book has an independent second volume with the subtitle Signaling Principles, Protocols and Wireless Systems. Emmanuel Desurvire; John Wiley & Sons Inc., Hoboken, N.J., 2004; $79.95.