ISDN and SS7: Architectures for Digital Signaling Networks

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Summary: Good for understanding ISDN and SS7 relationship
Review: I read the ISDN part of the book and then stopped. I am a software developer and have worked on several device drivers, eg, ATM and Ethernet under UNIX. This book tells you the basics about ISDN. It is easy to read and understand. But if you want to work on ISDN protocol stack, hardware design, or device driver, this book is definitely not enough. You want to read some other ISDN books.

Rating:
Summary: Good for understanding ISDN and SS7
Review: This book is very book for readers who are new to ISDN and SS7 or interested in knowing about singaling networks. Examples are given with diagrams for easy understanding and that is what makes this book interesting while reading. There are some misprints which make reading difficult sometime. However, they are simple and can be quickly corrected by the reader themselves (with little focus).

Best thing about this book is that it is for average audiance who do not have EE backgounrd and would like to have good understanding of the subject matter.

I could have given it 5 stars as intro book to ISDN and SS7 but since editing is poor, it's only worth 4 stars

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Summary: The Best Techy Intro to ISDN & SS7
Review: This is the best introductory technical book on ISDN and SS7 I've seen. I first came across it when I was writing software that handled ISDN connections, and found the ISDN spec (aka Q.931) pretty impenetrable. This book gave me enough background to deal with it. Recently I've been working on SS7 software, and once again found Black's book provides a solid grounding, getting you ready to read the specs for the gorey details.

It's small enough to read the whole thing, and yet it goes into enough detail to really explain what's up.

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Summary: Very good for beginners
Review: Uyless Black has great skill in technical writing. This book is not for those who need to know SS7 to a low level, or need to know the protocol inside it. But as a book for the beginner or someone who does not need to know SS7 inside out, then this book is easy to understand, and has appropriate coverage of both ISDN and SS7. So in short not a large book, nor is it in depth, but what is there is well written, and therefore for someone who only wants light coverage it is very good.