Telecommunications
Communication Booknotes · 1994
REFERENCE MANUAL FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING by Roger L. Freeman (New York: John Wiley, 1994— $195, ISBN 0–471–57960–2, 2,368 pp.) INTELLIGENT HUBS by Nathan J. Muller (Norwood, MA: Artech, 1993—price not given, ISBN 0–89006–698–1, 336 pp.) BROADBAND NETWORKING ABCs FOR MANAGERS: ATM, BISDN, CELL/FRAME RELAY TO SONET by Robert P. Davidson (New York: John Wiley, 1994—$29.95, paper, ISBN 0–471–61954‐X, 176 pp.) “STANDARDS: THEIR ‐GLOBAL IMPACT,” is the topic for the January issue of IEEE Communications Magazine (32:1). LOCAL COMPETITION: OPTIONS FOR ACTION by Robert M. Entman (Aspen Institute, Publications Office, PO Box 150, 109 Houghton Lab Lane, Queenstown, MD 21658—$10.00, paper, ISBN 0–89843–150–6, 36 pp.) THE IMPENDING DOOM OF COMMON CARRIAGE by Eli M. Noam (same publisher as title immediately above—$10.00, paper, ISBN 0–89843–148–4, 2 pp.) INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WIRELESS NETWORKS edited by Kaveh Pahlavan (Plenun Publishing, 233 Spring St., New York, NY 10013–1578—$145 institutional/$50 personal, quarterly, ISSN not given) LEADING EDGE TECHNOLOGIES AND ALLIANCES, is Vol 1, No. 2 of Technology Knowledge Activities published by the IC2 Institute, University of Texas, 2815 San Gabriel, Austin, TX 78505—no price or ISSN given, 50 pp.)