Telecommunications is one of the world fastest-growing industries, absorbing many inexperienced, non-technical individuals into this highly technical field. Often the boundaries between Telecommunications and Information Technology have become gray and sometimes even disappear completely. This book attempts to cover topics such as Telecommunications Standards, LAN, WAN, ATM, Frame Relay, Wireless Technologies, Neural Networks and Intelligent Agents, Voice and Data Applications, Internet Applications, Data Warehouse, Data Mining Applications, and Artificial Intelligent Applications, and it also explains each topic. These include OSI Models, Local Area Networks,Wide Area Networks,Voices Characteristics and Processing, Lines versus Trunk, Digital versus Analog Transmissions, Cellular and PCS, ATM, SONET, DWDM, DSL, SLA, and Carriers Service. In addition, it covers Internets, Intranets, Extranets, Broadband versus Baseband, Ethernet, Telephony equipment and networks, and traffic engineering.