Preface
About this Book
It took over 100 years, starting in 1876, for telephone networks to develop, grow, and mature. Compared to that, data networks, starting in 1969, took 50 years. Wireless networks, on the other hand, beginning around 1990, took just about 25 years to provide the present state in mobility. During large part of its existence telephone network, known as public-switched telephone network (PSTN), was a regulated monopoly to become the largest network that mankind had built, whereas development of data and wireless networks took place in an atmosphere of extreme competition. Today, data and wireless networks have grown to such an extent that the telephone network is becoming obsolete.
As a consequence of all these rapid changes ...
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