Explores and demystifies the radio and light frequency technologies necessary to satisfy the ever-increasing demand for faster, higher capacity broadband communications today and into the 21st century. DLC: Broadband communication systems.
Author(s): Terry Edwards
Publisher: Artech Print on Demand
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 275
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 13
1.1 Leaving basic POTS behind 1......Page 15
1.2 Increasingly interactive systems 8......Page 22
1.3 Why gigahertz wireless bearers? 14......Page 28
1.4 Cabled systems and terahertz transmission 19......Page 33
1.5 The available component technologies 22......Page 36
1.6 The ongoing communications revolution 27......Page 41
2.1 Why ever-more bandwidth? 29......Page 43
2.2 Future bandwidth resources 37......Page 51
2.3 Bandwidth and frequency implications for component technologies 42......Page 56
2.4 Radio and optical bandwidths 44......Page 58
2.5 Cost implication as bandwidth increases 49......Page 63
3.1 Multimode or single-mode fibers? 53......Page 67
3.2 SDH, SONET, and fiber 58......Page 72
3.3 Gigabit data betwork evolution 62......Page 76
3.4 Gigabit junction and GigaPOPs 66......Page 80
3.5 From WDM to DWDM 70......Page 84
3.6 Summary 75......Page 89
4.1 Defense--we all still need it 79......Page 92
4.2 The MILSATCOM, Skynet, and NATO series of satellite systems 84......Page 97
4.3 Military microwave radio relays 91......Page 104
4.4 Other defense systems 92......Page 105
4.5 Global security systems 93......Page 106
4.6 Typical technologies......Page 110
4.7 Summary 99......Page 112
5.1 Convergence revisited 101......Page 114
5.2 Technologies now - and then 103......Page 116
5.3 Delivery systems: LNBs, feeders, and compact antennas 114......Page 127
5.4 Technological developments and their likely impact 115......Page 128
6.1 Streets and communities 119......Page 132
6.2 Block dwellers and visitors 125......Page 138
6.3 Community or "just you" 128......Page 141
6.4 Expansion capabilities 129......Page 142
6.5 Technological developments and likely impacts 133......Page 146
7.1 What is a teleport? 137......Page 149
7.2 Roles of teleports 143......Page 155
7.3 Teleports of the late twentieth century - and beyond 145......Page 157
7.4 Likely future scenarios for teleports 164......Page 176
7.5 Teleportation technologies 167......Page 179
8.1 Broadband wireless without satellites or fiber 171......Page 182
8.2 Terrestrial options 174......Page 185
8.3 Local multipoint distribution services (LMDS) 176......Page 187
8.4 Microwave video distribution and multimedia wireless systems (MVDS and MWS) 181......Page 192
8.5 Platforms using stratospheric balloons and high-flying aircraft 184......Page 195
8.6 Technological developments 191......Page 202
8.7 Summary of suborbital platforms approaches 193......Page 204
9.1 Third-millennium satellites 197......Page 207
9.2 Some broadband mobile satellite systems 201......Page 211
9.3 Prospects for these space-based Internet on-ramps 216......Page 226
9.4 Space segment technologies 218......Page 228
9.6 Concluding remarks 221......Page 231
10.1 The multi-trillion dollar business-and-leisure superhighway 225......Page 234
10.2 Gadgets and gizmos 2010 style 228......Page 237
10.3 Superhighway on-ramps of the twenty-first century 229......Page 238
10.4 The terabit junction, terapops and bit-serial optical processing 231......Page 240
10.5 The brilliant broadband future 235......Page 244
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations 241......Page 250
About the Author 251......Page 260
Index 253......Page 262
