Teleports and the intelligent city / edited by Andrew D. Lipman, Alan D. Sugarman, Robert F. Cushman
Imprint
Homewood, Ill. : Dow Jones-Irwin, c1986
Descript
xxvii, 411 p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm
CONTENT
Teleports: an overview -- A primer on telecommunications and related technologies -- Satellite regulation-a short history -- Teleports: what's it all about? -- Teleport: the New York city metropolitan area intelligent network -- Teleports in medium-size markets -- Ohio teleport corporation -planning for a dynamic -- Bay area teleport-a case study -- Teleconferencing, teleports, and intelligent buildings -- Planning the teleport -- Technical aspects of applying telecommunications and related technologies to high tech real estate -- Proparing teleport applications -- Using teleports in connection with international communications services -- Connecting the high tech building through satellite networks -- Teleports and bypass: opportunity or threat to local telephone companies? -- The Role of local cable and fiber optic networks to corporate voive and data users -- Metropolitan area digital networks -- Teleports: the real estate and planning connection -- Telcommunications system and large world cities: a case study of New York