Telecommunications for Business
General Resources

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• Glossaries of telecommunications terms:
• short definitions
• UK Oftel  (http://www.oftel.gov.uk/publications/glossary/index.htm)

• MCI  (http://global.mci.com/us/enterprise/govt/federal_solutions/resource_guide/glossary_terms/)
• long descriptions
• whatis.com  (http://whatis.com/)

 

• On-line journal for CIOs:  cio.com (http://www.cio.com/)

 

• Telecommunications strategy:
• Frances Cairncross, Death of Distance, Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2001 [CAIRNCROSS].
• Peter Keen and Michael Cummins, Networks in Action, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Publishing, 1994 [KEEN].
• Stanford H. Rowe, Telecommunications for Managers, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002 [ROWE].

 

• Satellite communications:
• Joseph Pelton, Wireless and Satellite Telecommunications, Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1995.
• US policy (http://itri.loyola.edu/satcom2/00_es.htm)

 

• Internet:
• Data: Internet Software Consortium -- Domain Survey (http://www.isc.org/ds/)
• International charging: APEC ICAIS (http://www.apii.or.kr/apecdata/telwg/ICAIS/aicais-01.html)

 

• Economics of technology:
• Ivan Png, Managerial Economics, Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2002 [PNG].

   

• Queueing Theory:
  • Frederick S. Hillier and Gerald J. Lieberman, Introduction to Operations Research, McGraw Hill, Chapter 16: "Queueing Theory".
  • Kenneth S. Vastola, Dept of Electrical Computer and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute:  Performance Modeling and Analysis of Computer Communication Networks.

   

• Regulatory policy:
• Telecommunications Regulation Links (http://webpages.charter.net/rmccauley/reglinks.htm)