Broadband crash course

Survival Guide to Understanding -- and Profiting From -- Broadband!Get the right answers for smart broadband decision making-- from financial, management and marketing to equipment, applications, and protocols.

Broadband Crash Course examines broadband delivery in terms of markets and business opportunities.

Writing with the surety and thoroughness of a telecom insider and business executive, P.J.

Louis clearly and painlessly demonstrates how broadband services are delivered over today's complex telecommunications infrastructure, minus the heavy-duty math.

This one-of-a-kind guide is your chance to learn about:* Service bundling (voice, Internet access, e-mail, etc.) across all major network types (wireless, IP, cable, satellite, LANs, etc.)* Benefits of wireline and wireless broadband technologies* Service bundling and provisioning across the wireline and wireless broadband networks* The Local Loop and its future* Coaxing more applications from the technologies you've got* Business models that have proven themselves in the real world* 3G wireless, the wireless Internet, softswitching, M-commerce: how will they affect your business?