DSL : Simulation Techniques and Standards Development for Digital Subscriber Lines

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Summary: Good topic, very badly written
Review: I bought this book with great expectations. It covered all relevant subjects related to DSL. Even the first chapter summarizing POTs cable plant was encouraging. But, the book is horrible. Things are just thrown together without explaining clearly any of the subjects. Despite all the bad reviews you might be tempted to buy this book because there is not another book that covers all the DSL related material included in this book. Don't!
There are many good books on communication theory that cover equalization, echo cancellation, adaptive filtering, error correcting codes, noise, etc. It might be necessary to read some of these general books + a simple book on DSL to cover the same material as this book does.

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Summary: Very poor content.
Review: It did not live up to my expectations The first half of the book covers basic communication theory information such as channel equalization, coding, error corection and etc. These topics are also covered so basically that it does not add anything to the reader's knowledge. The second section of the book, DSL section, does not contain any network level DSL access systems architecture design and system management techniques. Therefore, I could not find valuable, practical information for the traffic engineers and network designers in this book.

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Summary: A good reference book if you are a xDSL design engineer
Review: There seems to be a lot of useful information in this text, but to get to it you must wade through a small mountain of transposed dependent clauses, misuse of plural case, typographical error, and generally putrid writing style. It seems the author learned english as a second language, and no one did a careful review prior to publication.

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Summary: Good topic, very badly written
Review: This book initially presented itself as providing a thorough technical background on issues pertaining to the analysis and design of xDSL related technologies. I am afraid to say that it has not lived up to my expectations. This text, for a technical exposition, is very poorly written, incorrect derivations and equations abound, incomplete or absent explanations for derivations seem to be the norm. The authour makes conclusions without justification and leaves it up to the reader to 'guess' for him or herself. Typographical errors are the bane of any technical book and make reading it difficult and frustrating at the best of times. This book has much potential and I sincerely hope that any subsequent editions will overcome its current shortcomings.

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Summary: Careless exposition
Review: This book initially presented itself as providing a thorough technical background on issues pertaining to the analysis and design of xDSL related technologies. I am afraid to say that it has not lived up to my expectations. This text, for a technical exposition, is very poorly written, incorrect derivations and equations abound, incomplete or absent explanations for derivations seem to be the norm. The authour makes conclusions without justification and leaves it up to the reader to 'guess' for him or herself. Typographical errors are the bane of any technical book and make reading it difficult and frustrating at the best of times. This book has much potential and I sincerely hope that any subsequent editions will overcome its current shortcomings.