Description: The telecommunications professional's guide to designing ISDN networks with a high quality of service.
-- Covers operation, maintenance and administration of ISDN using Signaling System 7.
-- Discusses major ISDN services that can be optimized via SS7 technology, including videoconferencing, Internet access, video over phone lines and mobile/wireless 800 service.
-- The newest book in Prentice Hall's internationally-respected Uyless Black Series on Advanced Communications Technologies.

This complete tutorial and reference shows communications engineers and other professionals how Signaling System 7 and ISDN can be integrated to deliver exceptionally high quality of service.

This book focuses on the SS7 signaling technology at the heart of today's telecommunications networks - and how SS7 can help you build ISDN networks with higher performance and reliability. It opens with an introduction to the basics of both digital signaling systems and analog in-band signaling. Next, it presents essential ISDN and SS7 technical standards in clear, readable form. The book covers ISDN layers 1 through 3, national ISDN, and the delivery of a wide variety of ISDN services and applications, including Internet access and videoconferencing. It offers detailed coverage of SS7 network OA&M; the ISUP and TCAP standards, and today's quickly evolving intelligent networks.

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