Not much on ADSl. What is there is not written well.

I found that this book did not contain very much information about ADSL. What was covered was unclear, poorly written and poorly edited, if edited at all. The book contains 10 chapters, only two of which were geared towards ADSL. Other chapters contained lots of general information about communications, such as: basics of analog & digital comm, various flavors of xDSL, OSI model, physical layer semiconductors, memory maps, state machines, routers, IP, and networking. I often found statements that the author put on paper about the ADSL physical layer which seemed to be contrary to what I know to be the truth, or at least worded poorly enough that they seemed to be so. Complex diagrams were copied from the ADSL standards with little explanation of what they meant. My general impression was that the author attempted to write a book containing material that was more technical than his background could support. After reading the small amount of material in it that had very much to do with ADSL, I put the book down and did not finish it.

Other Reviews

• A very good technical overview of ADSL systems
• A good concise overview that puts ADSL in context
• Not your usual xDSL book...
• Not much on ADSl. What is there is not written well.