'An essential resource.' --PC Magazine'A must-read.' --Interactive Week
'A page-turner that invites use.' --IEEE
'A fixture on the desks of many who deal with the technical world.' --New York Times
'The one reference book we can't do without... comprehensive and reliable.' --Telemanagement
This is the world's bestselling and most comprehensive reference book on telecom, data communications, networking, computing and the Internet, with over 675,000 copies sold. Featuring 500 new terms and hundreds more definitions updated and expanded, the 21st edition of Newton's Telecom Dictionary weighs in at over four times larger than any other telecom and IT dictionary, and includes wireless, broadband, VoIP, RFID, and fiber optics terms.
Packed with over 22,400 definitions, it explains technical concepts in non-technical language that anyone can understand. It's used by more leading technology companies for training and employee orientation than any other text. According to Discount Long Distance Digest, it 'truly belongs on the bookshelf of everyone in the telecom industry. It's worth every penny, and is pound-for-pound the best telecom book we have seen.'
FOUR BONUS Sections:
THE BEST MONEY-SAVING TIPS - Harry Newton's favorite ways to save on telecom, computing, airlines and hotels.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN TELECOM IS SUDDENLY FREE? - We need something new: A vision for the 21st century.
WHY IS IT SO HARD TO BUY? - How you should orient your precious telecom budget in today's tight times.
DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING - How to protect your computing and telecom resources.
Most dictionaries are updated every ten to twenty years. Not this one. Newton updates this dictionary every day and issues a new, expanded, improved and updated edition every ear. This edition is current as of Spring 2005.
Harry Newton has spent 34 years studying, writing, lecturing, and investing in telecom and technology. He founded key telecom magazines -LAN (now Network), Teleconnect, Call Center, Computer Telephony, and Technology Investor magazines. He also founded the trade shows, Computer Telephony Conference and Exhibition (CT Expo) and Call Center Demo. He sold his telecom publishing group in September 1997 to concentrate on writing.
Newton has an MBA from the Harvard Business School and an economics degree from the University of Sydney, Australia, where he was born. He is not an engineer, but wishes he were. He wrote this dictionary to teach himself his first loves-telecom and technology. In this dictionary, Newton explains complex technology in non-technical business language. He believes it's critical to understand what the technology does, what its benefits are, and the key tips to using and installing it. That's what this dictionary does.
