est management standards, the text: Covers the basics of network management, including legacy systems, management protocols, and popular products Deals with OSS/BSS-covering processes, applications, and interfaces in the service/business management layers Includes implementation guidelines for developing customized management solutions The book includes chapters devoted to popular market products and contains case studies that illustrate real-life implementations as well as the interaction between management layers. Complete with detailed references and lists of Web resources to keep you current, this valuable resource supplies you with the fundamental understanding and the tools required to begin developing telecom management solutions tailored to your customers' needs. AU8573 CRC Press 6000 Broken Sound Parkway, NW Suite 300, Boca Raton, FL 33487 ISBN 978-1-4200-8573-0 Taylor & Francis Group 270 Madison Avenue an informa business New York, NY 10016 www.crcpress.com 2 Park Square, Milton Park Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN, UK 9"781420"085730 www.auerbach-publications.com 7PQRS FUNDAMENTALS OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS S LECOND EDITION Wiley Series in Telecommunications and Signal Processing John G. Proakis, Series Editor ROGER FREEMAN Fundamentals of Telecommunications Second Edition Roger L. Freeman IEEE PRESS WILEY- INTERSCIENCE A JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC., PUBLICATION Fundamentals of Telecommunications Fundamentals of Telecommunications Second Edition Roger L. Freeman IEEE PRESS WILEY- INTERSCIENCE A JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC., PUBLICATION DEPARTMENT Copyright © 2005 by Roger L. Freeman. All rights reserved. LIBRUS YAANN! Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey. Published simultaneously in Canada. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written perm