Your one-stop Telephony and Telecom answer book. Get jargon-free answers to your questions on virtually every aspect of today's telephony and telecommunications systems in Voice & Data Communications Handbook, Signature Edition, by Regis J. ``Bud'' Bates and Donald Gregory. With this all-in-one guide you'll quickly master the essentials of analog, digital and analog-to-digital transmission--Internet and intranet hook-ups--engineering traffic to minimize congestion and disruptions--PBXs--competitive local exchange providers--voice processing and data communications--T1 and T-carrier systems--OSI--X.25--Ethernet and Token-Ring LANs--baseband versus broadband--frame relay--ISDN--ATM--video conferencing--light voice and data systems--and much more.