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Informationen zum Autor Geoff Varrall joined RTT in 1985 as an executive director and shareholder to develop RTT's international business as a provider of technology and business services to the wireless industry. He co-developed RTT's original series of design and facilitation workshops including 'RF Technology', 'Data Over Radio', 'Introduction to Mobile Radio', and 'Private Mobile Radio Systems' and developed 'The Oxford Programme', a five day strategic technology and market programme presented annually with the Shosteck Group. Over the past twenty years, several thousand senior level delegates have attended these programmes. As a Director of Cambridge Wireless, Geoff is involved in a number of wireless heritage initiatives that aim to capture and record past technology and engineering experience and has helped with fundraising at the Science Museum for the new Making of Modern Communications Gallery opening in 2014. Klappentext Bridging the industry divide between the technical expertise of engineers and the aims of market and business planners, Making Telecoms Work provides a basis for more effective interdisciplinary analysis of technology, engineering, market and business investment risk and opportunity. Since fixed and mobile broadband has become a dominant deliverable, multiple areas of transition and transformation have occurred; the book places these changes in the context of the political, social and economic dynamics of the global telecommunications industry.Drawing on 25 years of participative experience in the mobile phone and telecommunications industry, the author closely analyses the materials, components and devices that have had a transformative impact. By presenting detailed case studies of materials innovation, such as those shown at success story Apple, the book shows how the collaboration of technological imagination with business knowledge will shape the industry's future.* Makes a link between the technical aspects and the business practice of the telecoms industry, highlighting the commercial and economic significance of new developments* Gives a historical analysis of past successes and failures in order to identify future competitive advantage opportunities* Supplies detailed case studies of supply chain disconnects and the impact these have on industry risk and profitability* Brings together technological detail with analysis of what is and is not commercially important, from the implications of energy and environmental networks to the technical details of wireless network hardware. Zusammenfassung With the advent of fixed and mobile broadband technologies, the global telecommunications industry has seen enormous transformations. This book bridges the gap between the technical sphere and business practices in the telecom industry, providing an interdisciplinary analysis of technology, engineering, and business investment risk and opportunity. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword xvii List of Acronyms and Abbreviations xix Acknowledgements xxiii 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Differentiating Technology and Engineering Innovation 1 1.2 Differentiating Invention and Innovation 2 1.3 The Role of Standards, Regulation and Competition Policy 2 1.4 Mobile Broadband Auction Values - Spectral Costs and Liabilities and Impact on Operator Balance Sheets 3 1.5 TV and Broadcasting and Mobile Broadband Regulation 4 1.6 Technology Convergence as a Precursor of Market Convergence? 5 1.7 Mobile Broadband Traffic Growth Forecasts and the Related Impact on Industry Profitability 5 1.8 Radio versus Copper, Cable and Fibre - Comparative Economics 6 1.9 Standardised Description Frameworks - OSI Seven-Layer Model as a Market and Business Descriptor 7 1.10 Technology and Engineering Economics - Regional Shifts and Related Influence on the Design and Supply Chain, R...
List of contents
Foreword xvii
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations xix
Acknowledgements xxiii
1 Introduction 1
Part I USER HARDWARE
2 Physical Layer Connectivity 15
3 Interrelationship of the Physical Layer with Other Layers of the OSI Model 55
4 Telecommunications Economies of Scale 91
5 Wireless User Hardware 125
6 Cable, Copper, Wireless and Fibre and theWorld of the Big TV 167
Part II USER SOFTWARE
7 Device-Centric Software 175
8 User-Centric Software 185
9 Content- and Entertainment-Centric Software 199
10 Information-Centric Software 211
11 Transaction-Centric Software 229
Part III NETWORK HARDWARE
12 Wireless Radio Access Network Hardware 237
13 Wireless Core Network Hardware 257
14 Cable Network and Fibre Network Technologies and Topologies 267
15 Terrestrial Broadcast/Cellular Network Integration 275
16 Satellite Networks 303
Part IV NETWORK SOFTWARE
17 Network Software - The User Experience 335
18 Network Software - Energy Management and Control 347
19 Network Software - Microdevices and Microdevice Networks - The Software of the Very Small 353
20 Server Software 363
21 Future Trends, Forecasting, the Age of Adaptation and More Transformative Transforms 369
Index 391
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"In this excellent book, Geoff Varrall uses his 25 years of experience within the mobile phone and telecommunications industries to analyse the components, devices, and materials that will have a significant impact on the marketplace." ( Radio-Electronics.com , 16 April 2012)
