Book reviews

This book presents an extremely readable and comprehensive overview of the general engineering considerations necessary for the design of telecommunciation networks. The author´s thirtyfive years of experience in the telecommunication industry clearly shows in the easy, but informative and authoritative, way in which he addresses the various complex issues involved in the design of practical networks; this is especially noticable in the coverage on the interaction of the various disciplines involved, such as transmission and switching, in the planning, engineering and expansion of telecommunication systems. The text is written in a very easy-to-read and free-flowing style, avoiding mathematics and complex details; the result is nearly 500 pages of a vast amount of important material, culled from a large body of engineering texts and papers, served to us in a palatable and easily-digestible form.